Laurance
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Laurance has been given to 1,937 babies in the U.S. since 1885. 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 1956, with 47 recorded.
Babies named Laurance, 2011
1 in 610,000
Laurance 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Laurance?
Laurance had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 610,000
- 6 of 3,657,935 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 317,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 422,582 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Laurance sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laurance. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Laurances were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Laurance was born before 1948 — so the typical Laurance is around 77 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 19.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 882
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 19.0% of all recorded uses (368).
Is Laurance 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 1956 (47)
- Years since peak
- 69
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.8% average annual change
Spellings of Laurance
Laurance is not the most common spelling — Lawrence is, with 90.0% against Laurance's 0.38%.
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 Laurance is used
Across 1910–2025, Laurance was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 344,301 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 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. Laurance has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Laurance around the world
Where Laurance 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 & Wales1997–2011#4,647in 2011
- Ireland1975–1983#258in 1983
- South Australia1946–1968#520in 1968
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Laurance by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Laurance
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Laurance
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.