The name Lane, derived from the Old English word lanu, is an old surname-turned-given-name originally given to someone who lived near a lane or path. It first appeared in the Social Security Administration's top 1,000 for boy names in 1929, but wasn't a popular name until the mid-1990s when it went from 594th in 1993 to 354th the following year. Lane has now been a top-300 boy's name every year since 2014.
