Name meaning & stats
Lana
Lana means “light, or rock (debated)” (Russian origin). 56,661 US babies since 1940, peak 1948.
What it means
“light, or rock (debated)”
RussianDebated
In US birth records
Peak year: 1948
56,661 US babies were named Lana between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Lana (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 77% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1948)