girls:
182 births since 1996
#5534 (3rd percentile)
boys:
512 births since 1956
#4074 (11th percentile)
overall:
694 births since 1956
#7045 (9th percentile)
The name Larsen is the #7,045 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 694 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 8.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,074 (11.1% percentile) for all time with 512 births since 1956. For girls, it ranks #5,534 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 182 births since 1996.
Larsen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Larsen is available in 41 out of the 68 years between 1956 and 2023 (41 years for boys and 23 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 Larsen has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 60.0% of babies named Larsen were boys.
For boys, Larsen reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #794) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Larsen ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 82.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Larsen reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #976) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Larsen is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #940 (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Larsen".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Larsen is pronounced as LAHR-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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