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Laird

Boys' name

Landowner

Laird has been given to 1,902 babies in the U.S. since 1888. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Laird, 2022

1 in 564,000

Laird over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laird: meaning, origin, and history

Landowner

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laird means

Laird means “landowner”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Laird is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɛɹd/ and /ˈlɛəd/ for Laird.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,902 boys were recorded with the name Laird between 1888 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 48 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,040 in 1949.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Laird?

Laird had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laird sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laird. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lairds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laird was born before 1955 — so the typical Laird is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,162
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1950s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (392).

Is Laird rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (48)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,040
1949

Spellings of Laird

Laird is not the most common spelling — Larry is, with 85.6% against Laird's 0.20%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Laird is used

Across 1910–2025, Laird was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 248,528 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Laird has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Laird around the world

Where Laird ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1953–1953
    #334
    in 1953

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Laird by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,040
1949
Peak year
2006
48 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
1,902
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laird

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Laird

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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