Lauren — #351 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Lauren

The Social Security Administration has registered 474,797 babies named Lauren between 1924 and 2024, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lauren currently holds the #351 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 21,065 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lauren performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 153,590 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Lauren shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 46,859 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lauren in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lauren 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 474,797 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.