girls:
2.2k births since 1890
#3695 (35th percentile)
boys:
460k births since 1880
#68 (99th percentile)
overall:
462.1k births since 1880
#146 (98th percentile)
The name Lawrence is the #146 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 462,143 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #68 (98.5% percentile) for all time with 459,979 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,695 (35.3% percentile) for all time with 2,164 births since 1890.
Lawrence has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1890 for girls).
The name Lawrence has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lawrence reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 95.0% percentile (ranked #31) with 5,479 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 5,690 births per million (ranked 94.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lawrence ranks #486 for boys (46.7% percentile) with 283 births per million, which is 5.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lawrence reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #564) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 36 births per million (ranked 6.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lawrence ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 19.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lawrence".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lawrence. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lawrence is pronounced as LAW-ruhns, which has 2 syllables.
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