girls:
5 births since 1961
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1885
#2855 (38th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1885
#5829 (25th percentile)
The name Laurance is the #5,829 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,937 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 24.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,855 (37.7% percentile) for all time with 1,932 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1961.
Laurance first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1961 for girls). Birth data for Laurance is available in 91 out of the 127 years between 1885 and 2011 (91 years for boys and 1 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 Laurance has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Laurance reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 7.6% percentile (ranked #485) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 60 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2011.
For girls, Laurance reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #788) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1961.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Laurance".
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