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Laureen

#9,811 in 2025Girls' name

Elaboration of Laura

Laureen has been given to 7,127 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #9,811 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1958, with 349 recorded.

Babies named Laureen, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laureen: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Laura

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laureen means

Laureen is a elaboration of Laura.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Laureen is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɔɹ.in/ and /lə.ˈɹin/ for Laureen.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Laureen → 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.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,127 girls were recorded with the name Laureen between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 349 in 1958; its best national rank was #517 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,670 in 2020 to #9,811 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,831 in 2015 to #9,811 in 2025.

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 Laureen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,811
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laureen 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 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laureen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laureens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laureen was born before 1961 — so the typical Laureen is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,138
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1960s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (2,384).

Is Laureen 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,859
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,020
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.9%
Peak was 1958 (349)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#517
1960

Spellings of Laureen

Laureen is not the most common spelling — Lauren is, with 53.9% against Laureen's 0.81%.

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 Laureen is used

Across 1910–2025, Laureen was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 26,275 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 4,348
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 7,692
  3. 3Connecticut1 in 10,000
  4. 4New York1 in 12,500
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 16,667
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 16,667
  7. 7Ohio1 in 20,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 20,000

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. Laureen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Laureen around the world

Where Laureen 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
    2000–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • Scotland
    1976–1991
    #634
    in 1991
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–1998
    #351
    in 1998
  • Ireland
    1998–1998
    #498
    in 1998
  • France
    1959–2024
    #4,288
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1997–2022
    #2,577
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1946–1978
    #626
    in 1978

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

Notable people named Laureen

People whose public names include Laureen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Laureen in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Laureen. Linked forms have their own page here.

LaurenLoreenLaureneLaurine

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Laureen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,811
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,859
Best rank ever
#517
1960
Peak year
1958
349 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,127
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Laureen

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

LaurettaKayleenYasmeenDarleenLaureneMarleenJayleenLaurynLauraleeLauriAyleenJoleenLaurineJasleenLaunaCarleenArleenLaurelLauriceLoreenHarleenLauretteShireenJazleen

Names with a curve like Laureen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Laureen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PamalaGeriMaribethTereseMaryjoValorieGaylaRoxaneDorindaTeenaRobbinNannette

Sibling names for Laureen

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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