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Laurena

Girls' name

Elaboration of Lauren

Laurena has been given to 1,003 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 1920, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Laurena, 2016

1 in 524,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laurena: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Lauren

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laurena means

Laurena is a elaboration of Lauren.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Laurena is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Laurena → Lauren → Laurence. The family’s proposed meaning is “laurel”, recorded in English with the source elements laurus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lauren.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,003 girls were recorded with the name Laurena between 1885 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,070 in 1897.

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 Laurena?

Laurena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 524,000
7 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 253,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
363,362 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laurena 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 2016 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 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laurena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laurenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laurena was born before 1952 — so the typical Laurena is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
10.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
527
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1910s — 10.6% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Laurena 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 1920 (16)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,070
1897

Spellings of Laurena

Laurena is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 55.3% against Laurena's 0.07%.

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 Laurena is used

Across 1910–2025, Laurena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,067,518 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Laurena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Laurena around the world

Where Laurena 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
    2007–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    1968–1985
    #456
    in 1985
  • France
    1972–2025
    #4,449
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1945–1989
    #692
    in 1989

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

Laurena 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
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Best rank ever
#1,070
1897
Peak year
1920
16 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
1,003
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laurena

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

LauraineMaleenaLaurenceLauraleeEvalenaLaurelleCarlenaLauryKareenaLaurynnLauritaAdalenaSakeenaLauriceLaureenMileenaKaleenaLauralLauraliDalenaJalenaJolenaLaurineLaurina

Sibling names for Laurena

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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