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Lawrance

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lawrance has been given to 2,637 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1950, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Lawrance, 2018

1 in 502,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lawrance: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lawrance means

Lawrance is a given name.

The naming story behind Lawrance

Wikidata records Lawrance as a given name. The entity identifier is Q51317870, 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, 2,637 boys were recorded with the name Lawrance between 1889 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 71 in 1950; its best national rank was #810 in 1950.

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 Lawrance?

Lawrance had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 502,000
7 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 259,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,244 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lawrance 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 2018 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lawrance. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lawrances were born

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

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,502
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1950s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (567).

Is Lawrance 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 1950 (71)
Years since peak
75
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#810
1950

Spellings of Lawrance

Lawrance is not the most common spelling — Lawrence is, with 89.0% against Lawrance's 0.51%.

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 Lawrance is used

Across 1910–2025, Lawrance was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 209,799 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Indiana1 in —
  6. 6Louisiana1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Lawrance has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lawrance around the world

Where Lawrance 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
    1996–2003
    #3,467
    in 2003
  • Scotland
    1982–1982
    #315
    in 1982
  • France
    1997–1997
    #3,474
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1946–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lawrance 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
#810
1950
Peak year
1950
71 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
2,637
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lawrance

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

LawernceLawerenceLaweranceLawrenceTorrenceLawarenceTorranceLawtonLawrnceCadenceLawarnceLawayneLawenceTarranceKaydenceKadenceLauranceKaidenceClaranceFlorenceTeranceLorenceCaydenceLawson

Names with a curve like Lawrance

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

LindellTheodisDennieGaylonWindellAllynGlynnGaylenVernellWendelRolfCleophus

Sibling names for Lawrance

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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