girls:
4.2k births since 1894
#2669 (53rd percentile)
overall:
4.2k births since 1894
#4248 (45th percentile)
The name Laurene is the #4,248 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,153 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 45.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,669 (53.3% percentile) for all time with 4,153 births since 1894.
Laurene first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (first recorded for girls in 1894). Birth data for Laurene is available in 107 out of the 129 years between 1894 and 2022. 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.
For girls, Laurene reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 18.3% percentile (ranked #591) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 69 births per million (ranked 18.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Laurene".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Laurene", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 20 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lorene" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lorene..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Laurene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.0% confident that Laurene is pronounced as law-REEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAW-reen, at 35.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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