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[ 2 syll. lan-ny, la-nny ] The boy name Lanny is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is LAENiy †. Lanny is used predominantly in the English language, and its origin is Germanic and Old English. The name developed as the diminutive of other names starting with 'Lan-'. In addition, Lanny is a pet form (English) of the name Lance (English, French, and German). Lanny is also a pet form of the name Landon (English). Lanny is also a pet form of the name Langdon (English). Lanny is also a variant (English) of the name Roland (English, French, German, and Welsh). Lanney, Lanni, and Lannie are variants of Lanny. Lanny is uncommon as a baby name for boys. At the modest height of its usage in 1941, 0.030% of baby boys were given the name Lanny. It ranked at #300 then. The baby name has since markedly fallen in popularity, and is currently of sporadic use. Within the group of boy names directly linked to Lanny, Landon was the most popular in 2008. Lanny has in the past century been mostly given to boys. Baby names that sound like Lanny include Lanney, Lanni, Lannie, Lamon, Lani (English), Lanu, Launo (Finnish), Lelan, Lennie (English), Lenno, Lenny (English, Scottish, and German), Leno, Leon (English, Czech, German, French, Italian, Polish, and Spanish), Leone (Italian), Léon (French and Spanish), Liam (Irish), Lino (Italian), Lion (English), Loman, and Lonnie (English).
† Pronunciation for Lanny: L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"   |
