Laren
Laren was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 921 Americans have been recorded with it between 1923 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laren?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,470, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1983, the peak
Laren peaked in 1983, when 36 babies were given it (25 girls, #3,288 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,470 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,750 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,853 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,296 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,957 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,917 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,019 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,124 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,682 | 5 | #13,740 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,793 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #18,003 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,550 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,918 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,579 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,499 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,362 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,055 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,311 | 8 | #7,260 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,531 | 6 | #8,798 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,878 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,308 | 10 | #5,734 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,486 | 6 | #8,356 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,333 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,796 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,294 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,963 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,689 | 5 | #8,665 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,635 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,188 | 6 | #6,592 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,317 | 6 | #6,374 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,202 | 8 | #4,961 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,377 | 5 | #6,910 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,288 | 11 | #3,767 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,440 | 10 | #4,107 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,106 | 9 | #4,356 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,545 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,590 | 6 | #5,765 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,671 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,462 | 9 | #4,019 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,720 | 5 | #6,096 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,840 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 12 | #3,051 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,534 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,416 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 13 | #2,750 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #4,070 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 7 | #3,783 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #3,943 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,419 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,192 | 7 | #3,406 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,040 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,135 | 8 | #3,204 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 8 | #3,183 | |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,217 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 8 | #3,223 | |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,310 | 10 | #2,740 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,571 | 5 | #4,256 |
| 1957 | under 5 | 11 | #2,569 | |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,633 | 6 | #3,752 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,232 | 6 | #3,714 |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,629 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 8 | #2,987 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #4,006 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 8 | #2,911 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 13 | #2,177 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,178 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 10 | #2,584 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,223 | 13 | #2,094 |
| 1944 | under 5 | 12 | #2,131 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,844 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 9 | #2,571 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,722 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 6 | #3,992 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,985 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 6 | #4,046 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Laren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 921 Americans recorded as Laren, 60% are girls and 40% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Laren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laren, and how old are they?
An estimated 795 Americans named Laren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 31 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,153 people named Laren (734 women and girls, 419 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 813 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 516,015 babies since 1880, Laren is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 969 babies recorded by SSA was a Laren (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Laren
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1920-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Riki | 1,626 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Laren and names like it
- Compare Laren and LaurenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLaren peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laren since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Laren.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Laren alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.