Laramie
#1,088 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Laramie has been given to 3,005 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #1,088 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 226 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 60% girls, 40% boys all-time.
Babies named Laramie, 2025
1 in 14,900
Laramie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Laramie over time
In 2025, Laramie went to 93% girls and 7% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Laramie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 14,900
- 222 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 7,240
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,088
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 10,352 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Laramie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 10,352 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laramie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Laramies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Laramie was born before 2020 — so the typical Laramie is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 50.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,813
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 50.6% of all recorded uses (917).
Is Laramie 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
- +6
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,436
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,058
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 10.57×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 98.2%
- Peak was 2024 (226)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.4% average annual change
Spellings of Laramie
Laramie is not the most common spelling — Laraine is, with 33.6% against Laramie's 17.5%.
Where Laramie is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Laramie was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 1,613 girls, against 1 in 14,690 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1South Dakota1 in 1,613
- 2Nebraska1 in 2,000
- 3North Dakota1 in 2,326
- 4Oklahoma1 in 3,030
- 5Montana1 in 4,545
- 6Idaho1 in 5,882
- 7Kansas1 in 7,143
- 8Texas1 in 7,692
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.
Where Laramie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Laramie was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 150,429 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 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. Laramie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Laramie around the world
Where Laramie 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.
- Canada2022–2023#2,049in 2023
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Laramie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Laramie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Laramie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.