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Laure

Girls' name

Form of Laura

Laure has been given to 1,717 babies in the U.S. since 1886. 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 1959, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Laure, 2019

1 in 694,000

Laure over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laure: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Laura

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laure means

Laure is a form of Laura.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Laure is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /lɔʁ/ for Laure.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Laure → Laura. The family’s meaning is “laurel tree”, recorded in English with the source elements laurus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Laura.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Laure is pronounced /lɔʁ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,717 girls were recorded with the name Laure between 1886 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 102 in 1959; its best national rank was #1,054 in 1959.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Laure?

Laure had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laure sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laure. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laures were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laure was born before 1962 — so the typical Laure is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,557
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (606).

Is Laure 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1959 (102)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,054
1959

Spellings of Laure

Laure is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 39.8% against Laure'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 Laure is used

Across 1910–2025, Laure was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 197,658 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Dakota1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Connecticut1 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. Laure has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Laure around the world

Where Laure 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
    1999–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1900–2025
    #620
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–1988
    #657
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Laure by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,054
1959
Peak year
1959
102 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
1,717
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laure

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

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Sibling names for Laure

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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