Laure
Laure was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 1,717 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Laure and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 52 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laure by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laure mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Laure is “a female given name, equivalent to English Laura”
/lɔʁ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laure?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,936, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
102 babies in 1959, the peak
Laure peaked in 1959, when 102 girls were given it, #1,054 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,936 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,352 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,832 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,174 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,368 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,018 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,687 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,717 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,138 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,837 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 11 | #7,619 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,956 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,755 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,392 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,272 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,554 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,808 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,309 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,710 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,938 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,036 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,746 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,370 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,084 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,483 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,039 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,530 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,559 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,000 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,570 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,742 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,328 | 18.4 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,188 | 18.9 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,244 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,843 | 23.0 |
| 1965 | 56 | #1,490 | 31.7 |
| 1964 | 64 | #1,413 | 33.8 |
| 1963 | 69 | #1,335 | 35.8 |
| 1962 | 92 | #1,141 | 46.8 |
| 1961 | 97 | #1,118 | 48.1 |
| 1960 | 98 | #1,089 | 48.5 |
| 1959 | 102 | #1,054 | 50.4 |
| 1958 | 78 | #1,206 | 38.8 |
| 1957 | 71 | #1,246 | 34.7 |
| 1956 | 64 | #1,304 | 31.9 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,490 | 24.0 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,720 | 18.5 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,332 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 26 | #1,999 | 14.0 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,038 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,976 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,924 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,415 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,560 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,539 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,848 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,897 | 5.3 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,588 | 5.9 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,679 | 6.3 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,562 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,764 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,690 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,044 | 9.0 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,091 | 5.9 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,763 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,343 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,275 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,673 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,053 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,918 | 9.5 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,419 | 7.7 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,921 | 6.6 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,195 | 34.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laure a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laure has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laure: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laure, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 1,717 Americans ever recorded as Laure. The median Laure alive today is 63 years old; half are between 52 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 2,597 people named Laure (2,575 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,475 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Laure rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 770 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 374 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 205 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 31 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 1,026,377 babies since 1880, Laure is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,300 babies recorded by SSA was a Laure (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 Laure
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 Laure and names like it
- Compare Laure and LauraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLaure peaked in 1959.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laure since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Laure: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Laure.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Laure alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.