girls:
119 births since 1964
#5597 (2nd percentile)
boys:
5.2k births since 1915
#1667 (64th percentile)
overall:
5.3k births since 1915
#3763 (51st percentile)
The name Laron is the #3,763 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,273 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 51.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,667 (63.6% percentile) for all time with 5,154 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,597 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 119 births since 1964.
Laron first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1964 for girls). Birth data for Laron is available in 90 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (90 years for boys and 17 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Laron has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Laron reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 17.4% percentile (ranked #635) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 73 births per million (ranked 17.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Laron ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 15.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Laron reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #766) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Laron".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Laron. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.0% confident that Laron is pronounced as luh-RAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-RAWN, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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