Lauran
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lauran has been given to 1,468 babies in the U.S. since 1945. 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 1989, with 69 recorded.
Babies named Lauran, 2020
1 in 668,000
Lauran 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lauran?
Lauran had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 323,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lauran sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lauran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Laurans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lauran was born before 1989 — so the typical Lauran is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 29.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,441
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (438).
Is Lauran 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1989 (69)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.8% average annual change
Spellings of Lauran
Lauran is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 49.1% against Lauran's 0.09%.
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 Lauran is used
Across 1910–2025, Lauran was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 405,326 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6North Carolina1 in —
- 7Ohio1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 in —
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. Lauran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lauran around the world
Where Lauran 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 & Wales1996–2007#5,201in 2007
- Scotland1987–1994#629in 1994
- Ireland1997–2004#677in 2004
- Canada1994–1994#2,260in 1994
- South Australia1984–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Lauran by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lauran
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lauran
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.