Lauran
Lauran was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 1,468 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,390 Americans named Lauran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 29 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lauran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lauran?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,476, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
69 babies in 1989, the peak
Lauran peaked in 1989, when 69 girls were given it, #1,899 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #16,476 | 3.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,712 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,570 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,574 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,999 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,882 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,837 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,944 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,904 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,248 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #16,673 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,076 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,630 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,008 | 14.2 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,518 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,133 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,456 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,556 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,077 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,690 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,128 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,889 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,244 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,725 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,550 | 27.1 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,163 | 33.6 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,569 | 25.6 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,357 | 27.9 |
| 1989 | 69 | #1,899 | 37.4 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,059 | 32.0 |
| 1987 | 46 | #2,320 | 26.5 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,036 | 30.9 |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,239 | 26.7 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,164 | 27.3 |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,531 | 21.5 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,054 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,634 | 21.0 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,779 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,329 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,564 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,120 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,964 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,557 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,389 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,773 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,318 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,719 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,301 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,960 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,334 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,201 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,204 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,440 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,915 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,682 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,021 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,864 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,925 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,917 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,811 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,319 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,928 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,919 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,122 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,310 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,863 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,562 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,287 | 6.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,337 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,839 | 8.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lauran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lauran has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lauran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lauran, and how old are they?
1,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,468 Americans ever recorded as Lauran. The median Lauran alive today is 37 years old; half are between 29 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,821 people named Lauran (1,756 women and girls, 65 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,409 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 158 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 145 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 717 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 333 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 31 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 516,229 babies since 1880, Lauran is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 935 babies recorded by SSA was a Lauran (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 Lauran
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 Lauran and names like it
- Compare Lauran and LaurenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLauran peaked in 1989.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lauran since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Lauran.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lauran alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.