Larson
Larson is given to both girls and boys: 10 girls and 50 boys were given it in 2025 (#9,810 among girls’ names and #2,628 among boys’, #4,996 among all names counting both); 1,771 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Larson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Larson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Larson?
#2,628 among boys’ names, 2025
Larson rose from #3,124 in 2015 to #2,628 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.3 to 29.3 per million.
66 babies in 2024, the peak
Larson peaked in 2024, when 66 babies were given it (56 boys, #2,461 among boys’ names). The 60 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 91% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #2,628 | 29.3 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,461 | 32.5 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,352 | 34.5 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,482 | 32.1 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,678 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,383 | 32.4 |
| 2019 | 48 | #2,676 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,773 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,372 | 29.7 |
| 2016 | 47 | #2,646 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,124 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,016 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,260 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,210 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,462 | 26.9 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,986 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,609 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,740 | 22.1 |
| 2007 | 41 | #2,898 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 53 | #2,368 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,057 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,086 | 28.7 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,332 | 23.3 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,916 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,963 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,505 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,985 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,059 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,944 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,253 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,809 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,200 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,828 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,849 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,554 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,247 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,923 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,906 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,900 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,563 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,538 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,403 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,852 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,413 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,358 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,142 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,361 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,713 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,162 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,241 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,817 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,128 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,200 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,944 | 3.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,745 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,221 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,760 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,206 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,315 | 6.3 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,358 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,258 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,717 | 2.9 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,008 | 2.7 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,959 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,238 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,050 | 4.3 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,298 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,335 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,308 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,803 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,834 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,124 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,960 | 4.8 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,535 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,575 | 4.6 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,303 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Larson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,771 Americans recorded as Larson, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Larson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Larson, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,771 Americans ever recorded as Larson. The median Larson alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,493 people named Larson (144 women and girls, 1,349 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,348 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 48 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 60 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 225 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 647 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 679 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,497 babies since 1880, Larson is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 72 babies (83%), again the most given.
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 Larson
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 Larson and names like it
- Compare Larson and LarsenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Larson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Larson alive today were born 2013-2025.
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