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Lawerence

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lawerence has been given to 4,818 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1949, with 125 recorded.

Babies named Lawerence, 2015

1 in 740,000

Lawerence over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lawerence: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lawerence means

Lawerence is a given name.

The naming story behind Lawerence

Wikidata records Lawerence as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q136324695, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,818 boys were recorded with the name Lawerence between 1881 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 125 in 1949; its best national rank was #608 in 1949.

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.

How common is Lawerence?

Lawerence 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 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lawerence 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 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lawerence. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lawerences were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lawerence was born before 1944 — so the typical Lawerence is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
19.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,921
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1950s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (957).

Is Lawerence 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 1949 (125)
Years since peak
76
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#608
1949

Spellings of Lawerence

Lawerence is not the most common spelling — Lawrence is, with 90.2% against Lawerence's 0.94%.

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 Lawerence is used

Across 1910–2025, Lawerence was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 103,432 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 50,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 50,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Iowa1 in 100,000

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

Lawerence by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#608
1949
Peak year
1949
125 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
4,818
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lawerence

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

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Names with a curve like Lawerence

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

HaywardWaymonRogersRayfordSherwoodMeltonLynwoodReynoldWardellGlynnGaroldFelton

Sibling names for Lawerence

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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