Entry № 5745 · English origin

Lane Lane — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAYN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Narrow road (Diane Lane; Lois Lane)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "narrow road (diane lane; lois lane)".

Lane is from the Old English lanu (narrow road, path).

Narrow road (Diane Lane; Lois Lane) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Lane
Transliteration
Lane
Pronunciation
/ leɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lane stands.

Lane does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lanes before her.

Real people
Diane Lane
American Oscar-nominated actress.
born 1965
In fiction
Lois Lane
Superman's love interest.
1938

Names connected to Lane.

The number behind Lane.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lane reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.