Laurna
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Laurna has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 1960, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Laurna, 2001
1 in 748,000
Laurna over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Laurna?
Laurna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 748,000
- 5 of 3,742,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 360,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,778 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Laurna sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laurna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Laurnas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Laurna was born before 1961 — so the typical Laurna is around 64 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 50.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 60
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (33).
Is Laurna 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 1960 (8)
- Years since peak
- 65
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.3% average annual change
Spellings of Laurna
Laurna is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 43.7% against Laurna's <0.01%.
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.
Laurna around the world
Where Laurna 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.
- Ireland1982–2001#498in 2001
- France1996–2015#6,193in 2015
- South Australia1966–1966#658in 1966
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Laurna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Laurna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Laurna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.