Lawyer

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lawyer has been given to 1,021 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1930, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Lawyer, 2021

1 in 484,000

Lawyer over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lawyer: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lawyer means

Lawyer is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lawyer is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,021 boys were recorded with the name Lawyer between 1880 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1930; its best national rank was #562 in 1886.

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 Lawyer?

Lawyer had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 484,000; 7 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only: 1 in 250,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 335,678 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lawyer 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 2021 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 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lawyer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lawyers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lawyer was born before 1930 — so the typical Lawyer is around 95 today.

Median birth year: 1930; About 95 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 3.0%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 244; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (174).

Is Lawyer 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1930 (31)
Years since peak: 95; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #562; 1886

Spellings of Lawyer

Lawyer is not the most common spelling — Sawyer is, with 90.8% against Lawyer's 1.4%.

Sawyer90.8%65,838
Mayer3.5%2,545
Lander1.6%1,162
Lanier1.5%1,063
Lawyer1.4%1,021
Lazer1.2%841

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 Lawyer is used

Across 1910–2025, Lawyer was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 155,888 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Mississippi1 in 33,333
2Alabama1 in 100,000
3Georgia1 in —
4North Carolina1 in —
5South Carolina1 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. Lawyer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lawyer around the world

Where Lawyer 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
2009–2009
#708
in 2009

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

Lawyer 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: #562; 1886
Peak year: 1930; 31 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 1,021
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lawyer

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

Lawton Lawayne Thayer Lawsen Lawernce Myer Breyer Lawson Mayer Sayer Bryer Grayer Royer Lawsyn Lawerance Meyer Lawrance Law Lawren Xavyer Lawless Ryer Lawrnce Lawaia

Sibling names for Lawyer

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Billy Donald Ardith Roma Marvel Bobby Socorro Josefina

For a brother

Carrol Normand Gaylord Mary Frances Dudley Delmar Sanford

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