Lars — #2232 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lars

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,949 babies named Lars between 1883 and 2024, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lars currently holds the #2232 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 127 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lars performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,135 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lars shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 931 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Lars in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lars in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,949 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.