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Laurene

Girls' name

Elaboration of Laura

Laurene has been given to 4,158 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1954, with 137 recorded.

Babies named Laurene, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laurene: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Laura

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laurene means

Laurene is a elaboration of Laura.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Laurene is used in English.

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Laurene → 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, 4,158 girls were recorded with the name Laurene between 1894 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 137 in 1954; its best national rank was #802 in 1954.

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 Laurene?

Laurene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laurene 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laurene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laurenes were born

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

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,266
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1950s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (1,041).

Is Laurene 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 1954 (137)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#802
1954

Spellings of Laurene

Laurene is not the most common spelling — Lauren is, with 59.3% against Laurene's 0.52%.

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 Laurene is used

Across 1910–2025, Laurene was most concentrated in Connecticut — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 63,752 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Connecticut1 in 33,333
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 50,000

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

Laurene around the world

Where Laurene 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
    2004–2004
    #3,197
    in 2004
  • Scotland
    1983–1983
    #512
    in 1983
  • France
    1954–2025
    #3,259
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1944–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Laurene

People whose public names include Laurene, 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.

Laurene in other languages

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

LaurenLoreneLaureenLaurenaLaurineLorène

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

Laurene 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
#802
1954
Peak year
1954
137 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,158
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laurene

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

LaureenRayleneLauraleeKayleneJasleneJaileneLaurettaAdileneLaurineRaeleneLaunaLauriceJayleneAbileneSereneJazleneLauretteLaurynAdeleneLauraineLauriMayleneKarleneJoelene

Names with a curve like Laurene

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

KathaleenEvonPhillisHerlindaArnettaVonnieVenitaVernettaVernitaMaritaDorettaKathern

Sibling names for Laurene

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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