Lanah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LAH-na
- Origin
- Celtic
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Lanah is a girls' name of Celtic origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
What does Lanah mean?
Celtic: spelling of Lana; short form of Alana; also of Slavic Svetlana
Made famous in the 1940s by actress Lana Turner, born Julia Jean Turner; it is also a Slavic short form of Svetlana.
Meaning borrowed from Lana. More on Wiktionary.
Is Lanah a girl's or a boy's name?
Lanah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lanah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2017, with 12 girls.
Half of all the girls named Lanah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Lanah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 11 | #2,450 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 2 | #7,433 |
| 2017 | 12 | #2,336 |
| 2016 | 1 | #7,664 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,629 |
| 2014 | 11 | #2,462 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 2 | #7,447 |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
How popular is Lanah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,324th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 12% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Lanah, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 32 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Lanah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 816 girls in the US were given Lanah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #405, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.
Lanah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,569 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,781 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,189 |
| 2016 | 27 | #4,989 |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,724 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,453 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,011 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,251 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,332 |
| 2010 | 22 | #5,975 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,707 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,556 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,865 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,373 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
Names like Lanah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Ayah, Zainab, Nusaybah, Aaliyah, Hafsa, Ayra, Layla, Ayla, Raya, Hiba, Liyana
Other spellings of Lanah
Names related to Lanah
More Celtic names
Arthur, Imogen, Gael, Harvey, Alana, Alan, Tristan, Vienna, Alaina, Sabrina, Alanna, Bryce, Devon, Arturo, Alannah, Cedric
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Lanah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lanah, updated 20 October 2026.