Laurance
Laurance was last recorded in 2011, when 6 babies were given it; 1,937 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laurance by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laurance?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,683, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1956, the peak
Laurance peaked in 1956, when 47 boys were given it, #1,112 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #11,683 | 3.2 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,567 | 3.4 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,841 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,781 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,170 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,204 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,610 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,923 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,322 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,625 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 16 | #3,534 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,036 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,025 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,689 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,966 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,825 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,917 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,833 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,772 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,532 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,273 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,315 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,988 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,233 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,168 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,795 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,743 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,089 | 11.3 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,456 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,626 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,154 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 21 | #1,736 | 12.0 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,634 | 12.9 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,891 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 25 | #1,598 | 12.5 |
| 1963 | 23 | #1,679 | 11.3 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,785 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 24 | #1,669 | 11.3 |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,280 | 17.8 |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,397 | 15.0 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,355 | 15.5 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,735 | 10.2 |
| 1956 | 47 | #1,112 | 22.2 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,437 | 14.1 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,207 | 19.1 |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,159 | 20.8 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,127 | 22.1 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,271 | 18.1 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,094 | 23.5 |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,102 | 23.1 |
| 1948 | 45 | #1,057 | 25.6 |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,243 | 19.1 |
| 1946 | 34 | #1,206 | 20.9 |
| 1945 | 30 | #1,213 | 22.3 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,162 | 24.2 |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,162 | 24.5 |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,157 | 26.1 |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,143 | 27.7 |
| 1940 | 45 | #956 | 38.8 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,290 | 24.4 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,591 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,199 | 29.1 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,406 | 22.2 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,238 | 28.8 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,409 | 23.2 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,388 | 24.2 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,536 | 21.1 |
| 1931 | 30 | #1,270 | 28.9 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,630 | 19.1 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,330 | 27.0 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,736 | 18.1 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,340 | 27.5 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,316 | 27.9 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,777 | 17.9 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,604 | 21.2 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,449 | 24.6 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,617 | 21.1 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,493 | 23.6 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,727 | 19.7 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,510 | 24.5 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,631 | 21.7 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,047 | 16.2 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,359 | 29.2 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,486 | 25.9 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,469 | 27.5 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,548 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,579 | 25.6 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,218 | 42.7 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,306 | 38.9 |
| 1905 | 8 | #969 | 60.5 |
| 1885 | 7 | #807 | 64.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Laurance a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laurance has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 91 years of records.
Girls and boys named Laurance: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laurance, and how old are they?
An estimated 887 Americans named Laurance and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 50 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,123 people named Laurance (51 women and girls, 1,072 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,043 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 43,751 babies since 1880, Laurance is the second most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 98 babies recorded by SSA was a Laurance (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 Laurance
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 Laurance and names like it
- Compare Laurance and LaurenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLaurance peaked in 1956.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laurance since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Laurance.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Laurance alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.