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Laurette

Girls' name

Laurel tree, through Lauretta

Laurette has been given to 3,106 babies in the U.S. since 1890. 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 85 recorded.

Babies named Laurette, 2015

1 in 463,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laurette: meaning, origin, and history

Laurel tree, through Lauretta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laurette means

Laurette belongs to the name family reached through Laurette → Lauretta → Laura. Its meaning is “laurel tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Laurette is used in English and French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lauretta, Laure and Laura.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Laurette is pronounced /lɔ.ʁɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,106 girls were recorded with the name Laurette between 1890 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1956; its best national rank was #818 in 1904.

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 Laurette?

Laurette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 463,000
8 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 223,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
320,718 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laurette 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 2015 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 320,718 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laurette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laurettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laurette was born before 1942 — so the typical Laurette is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.74%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,286
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1950s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (580).

Is Laurette 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 1956 (85)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#818
1904

Spellings of Laurette

Laurette is not the most common spelling — Paulette is, with 51.1% against Laurette's 3.4%.

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 Laurette is used

Across 1910–2025, Laurette was most concentrated in New Hampshire — about 1 in 2,564 girls, against 1 in 59,241 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

039 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Hampshire1 in 2,564
  2. 2Maine1 in 2,941
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  4. 4Vermont1 in 25,000
  5. 5New York1 in 33,333
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Laurette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Laurette around the world

Where Laurette 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.

  • France
    1900–2025
    #5,131
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1945–1973
    #695
    in 1973

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). 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 Laurette

People whose public names include Laurette, 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.

Laurette in other languages

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

LauraLaureLaurineLowri

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

Laurette 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
#818
1904
Peak year
1956
85 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
3,106
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laurette

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

LauraleeLaurettaLauraineLaureenEllietteLaurenceBrigetteVioletteLaurelleCosetteBabetteLaurindaLissetteColletteLaurineLaureneLinetteBrigitteCharletteElliotteLaunaLauriceOlivetteScarlette

Names with a curve like Laurette

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

BernettaDrusillaVernettaGlendoraBernitaDortheaDorineTrudieDeloraDellRoyLavern

Sibling names for Laurette

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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