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Lauro

#4,969 in 2025Boys' name

Egyptian rue (Ruta angustifolia), through laurus

Lauro has been given to 2,180 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #4,969 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Lauro, 2025

1 in 166,000

Lauro over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lauro: meaning, origin, and history

Egyptian rue (Ruta angustifolia), through laurus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lauro means

Lauro belongs to the name family reached through Lauro → laurus → laura. Its meaning is “Egyptian rue (Ruta angustifolia)”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the Italian surname, from a personal name derived from Latin laurus.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lauro (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Lauro is used in English and Italian.

Lauro comes through Latin laurus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Laura, laurus and laura.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,180 boys were recorded with the name Lauro between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,480 in 1933.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,453 in 2020 to #4,969 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,982 in 2015 to #4,969 in 2025.

How common is Lauro?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,969
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lauro sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lauro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lauros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lauro was born before 1982 — so the typical Lauro is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
13.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,723
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Choose a decade

1990s — 13.8% of all recorded uses (301).

Is Lauro 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
−696
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,484
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+13
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2000 (48)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,480
1933

Spellings of Lauro

Lauro is not the most common spelling — Larry is, with 90.0% against Lauro's 0.24%.

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 Lauro is used

Across 1910–2025, Lauro was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 26,122 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 12,500
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Lauro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lauro around the world

Where Lauro 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.

  • South Australia
    1966–1969
    #510
    in 1969

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lauro

People whose public names include Lauro, 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.

Lauro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,969
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,484
Best rank ever
#1,480
1933
Peak year
2000
48 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,180
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Lauro

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

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Names with a curve like Lauro

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

FelicianoCelsoDionicioDemetrioCecilioEsequielRoqueJacintoMarcialJensClementeBlas

Sibling names for Lauro

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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