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Lane

52,177 recorded births · active 1881–2025

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Living-age distribution

The median living Lane is 19. If you meet a Lane, there's about a 70% chance they're between 6 and 42 years old.

Popularity arc

Peak Lane: 2025. Down 4% from peak.

Projected: the dashed 10-year forecast (Holt damped-trend exponential smoothing, fit to recent years), with a shaded 95% interval.

Gender balance

91.1% male, 8.9% female.

91.1%male
Male91.1%
Female8.9%

Rarity

Lane ranks #1,074 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.

99%more common
Commonness rank#1,074of 105,966

Name neighbors

People named Lane have popularity-curve siblings named:

BlaiseKieranKennaIsaiasBelen

Geographic fingerprint

Lanes are 1.2x more common in the Midwest than the national average.

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Predictive modeling

Three statistical models, all fit to Lane's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.

Peak popularity prediction

Trending toward a peak rank around #401 (95% range 303–562) in 2035.

Top 1000 Reached in 1951
Top 500 Reached in 1995
Top 100
0% chance
Top 50
0% chance
Top 10
0% chance

Projects the trend forward, then converts share into rank using this year's popularity distribution.

This forecasts Lane's share of births by fitting a damped-trend model to its last 124 years of data and projecting 10 years forward with a widening uncertainty band. Each projected share is then translated into a rank by comparing it against 2025's actual name-popularity distribution — so the model implicitly assumes the overall shape of that distribution doesn't shift much over the forecast window. Its current trend is projected to set a new all-time high within the next 10 years. Milestone probabilities come from how much of each year's uncertainty band clears that milestone's rank, combined across years as if they were independent — which slightly overstates the odds for names sitting right at a threshold, since a good year is usually followed by another good year rather than an independent coin flip.

Name life-cycle stage

A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.

Peaking

Lane's all-time high was just this year — it's at or very near its historic peak right now.

0
years since peak
→ stable
overall trend
~42 years
estimated time left in top 1000

Popularity survival model

Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?

Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.

Lane isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.

If Lane enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:

71%
5 years
63%
10 years
48%
20 years

Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.