girls:
473.9k births since 1924
#67 (99th percentile)
boys:
5.8k births since 1884
#1551 (66th percentile)
overall:
479.7k births since 1884
#138 (98th percentile)
The name Lauren is the #138 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 479,711 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 98.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #67 (98.8% percentile) for all time with 473,898 births since 1924. For boys, it ranks #1,551 (66.2% percentile) for all time with 5,813 births since 1884.
Lauren first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1924 for girls). Birth data for Lauren is available in 124 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (121 years for boys and 88 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 Lauren has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.8% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1945, the name was more popular for boys (94.7% boys from 1884 to 1944), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (99.2% girls from 1945 to 2023).
For girls, Lauren reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 99.0% percentile (ranked #9) with 10,573 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 10,573 births per million (ranked 99.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1991, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lauren ranks #323 for girls (66.0% percentile) with 513 births per million, which is 4.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lauren reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 17.5% percentile (ranked #625) with 64 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 80 births per million (ranked 15.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lauren".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lauren. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.7% confident that Lauren is pronounced as LAW-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAW-rihn, at 28.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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