girls:
21.8k births since 1952
#978 (83rd percentile)
boys:
12 births since 2004
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
21.8k births since 1952
#1728 (78th percentile)
The name Lauryn is the #1,728 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,792 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 77.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #978 (82.9% percentile) for all time with 21,780 births since 1952. For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 2004.
Lauryn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (1952 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Lauryn is available in 66 out of the 72 years between 1952 and 2023 (66 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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 Lauryn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lauryn reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 81.2% percentile (ranked #167) with 967 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 967 births per million (ranked 81.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lauryn ranks #725 for girls (23.5% percentile) with 130 births per million, which is 13.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lauryn reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #845) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lauryn".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lauryn", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 31 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lauren" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lauren..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lauryn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.5% confident that Lauryn is pronounced as LAW-rihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAW-ruhn, at 10.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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