Laron
Laron was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,304 among boys’ names; 5,312 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,910 Americans named Laron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 22 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laron?
#6,304 among boys’ names, 2025
Laron fell from #2,510 in 2015 to #6,304 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.1 to 8.2 per million.
139 babies in 1990, the peak
Laron peaked in 1990, when 139 boys were given it, #866 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,304 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,641 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,543 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,374 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,699 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,091 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,126 | 21.2 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,825 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,777 | 23.8 |
| 2016 | 53 | #2,424 | 27.9 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #2,510 | 26.1 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,107 | 34.4 |
| 2013 | 48 | #2,551 | 25.4 |
| 2012 | 75 | #1,918 | 39.5 |
| 2011 | 87 | #1,712 | 45.8 |
| 2010 | 84 | #1,772 | 43.8 |
| 2009 | 89 | #1,738 | 44.9 |
| 2008 | 101 | #1,578 | 49.5 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,426 | 54.9 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,505 | 49.1 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,425 | 52.1 |
| 2004 | 86 | #1,543 | 43.3 |
| 2003 | 84 | #1,528 | 42.5 |
| 2002 | 67 | #1,730 | 34.5 |
| 2001 | 72 | #1,637 | 37.1 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,437 | 43.8 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,462 | 41.1 |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,351 | 46.0 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,338 | 44.6 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,209 | 49.1 |
| 1995 | 86 | #1,259 | 45.2 |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,183 | 48.7 |
| 1993 | 118 | #1,009 | 60.2 |
| 1992 | 123 | #974 | 61.6 |
| 1991 | 127 | #939 | 62.9 |
| 1990 | 139 | #866 | 67.7 |
| 1989 | 121 | #922 | 60.5 |
| 1988 | 119 | #871 | 62.2 |
| 1987 | 114 | #878 | 61.1 |
| 1986 | 99 | #919 | 53.8 |
| 1985 | 109 | #871 | 59.0 |
| 1984 | 80 | #995 | 44.3 |
| 1983 | 100 | #881 | 55.8 |
| 1982 | 90 | #948 | 49.6 |
| 1981 | 106 | #863 | 59.2 |
| 1980 | 101 | #893 | 56.6 |
| 1979 | 114 | #820 | 66.2 |
| 1978 | 107 | #830 | 65.2 |
| 1977 | 107 | #825 | 65.1 |
| 1976 | 119 | #762 | 75.8 |
| 1975 | 95 | #856 | 60.8 |
| 1974 | 82 | #896 | 52.2 |
| 1973 | 68 | #983 | 43.6 |
| 1972 | 79 | #904 | 48.7 |
| 1971 | 92 | #851 | 52.0 |
| 1970 | 77 | #913 | 41.4 |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,228 | 23.5 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,125 | 25.9 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,240 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 27 | #1,493 | 15.1 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,755 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 25 | #1,597 | 12.5 |
| 1963 | 28 | #1,498 | 13.8 |
| 1962 | 28 | #1,499 | 13.5 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,193 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 21 | #1,795 | 9.8 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,838 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,443 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,924 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 20 | #1,789 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,267 | 6.3 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,794 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,349 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,988 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,312 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,073 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,173 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,986 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,123 | 7.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,171 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,996 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,102 | 4.9 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,151 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,410 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,540 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,801 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,807 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,931 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,501 | 5.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,463 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,976 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,644 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Laron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,312 Americans recorded as Laron, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Laron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laron, and how old are they?
4,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 5,312 Americans ever recorded as Laron. The median Laron alive today is 35 years old; half are between 22 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 3,672 people named Laron (142 women and girls, 3,530 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,880 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 211 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,170 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,650 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 476 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Laron born?
The states with the most babies named Laron are California, Michigan and Illinois, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 477 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 352 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 351 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 227 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 223 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 178 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 111 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 104 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 74 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 66 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Laron is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laron is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1915 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Laron with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,714 babies since 1880, Laron is the most given (93% of them).
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 Laron
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Laron and names like it
- Compare Laron and LarronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLaron peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laron since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Laron.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Laron alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.