Lauren
Lauren was given to 777 girls in 2025, #401 among girls’ names; 481,395 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 465,000 Americans named Lauren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 25 and 40.
Lauren is the #42 most common first name among living American women and girls, by this estimate.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lauren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lauren mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lauren is “a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Laurence; feminine of Lawrence”
Also “a male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Laurence.”
Latin clipping of Laurentius. Doublet of Laurence.
/ˈlɔɹɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lauren?
#401 among girls’ names, 2025
Lauren fell from #119 in 2015 to #401 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.5 to 0.48 per 1,000.
21,199 babies in 1989, the peak
Lauren peaked in 1989, when 21,199 babies were given it (21,065 girls, #9 among girls’ names). The 777 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 777 | #401 | 0.48 |
| 2024 | 882 | #351 | 0.54 |
| 2023 | 900 | #343 | 0.56 |
| 2022 | 987 | #327 | 0.60 |
| 2021 | 969 | #337 | 0.59 |
| 2020 | 1,278 | #232 | 0.79 |
| 2019 | 1,513 | #202 | 0.90 |
| 2018 | 1,705 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 1,992 | #148 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 2,325 | #134 | 1.3 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,697 | #119 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 3,097 | #94 | 1.7 |
| 2013 | 3,350 | #92 | 1.9 |
| 2012 | 3,660 | #72 | 2.1 |
| 2011 | 4,100 | #62 | 2.3 |
| 2010 | 4,466 | #58 | 2.5 |
| 2009 | 5,204 | #46 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 6,455 | #30 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7,437 | #28 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 8,498 | #24 | 4.5 |
| 2005 | 9,249 | #21 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 9,983 | #16 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 11,051 | #15 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 12,327 | #13 | 6.9 |
| 2001 | 12,782 | #15 | 7.1 |
| 2000 | 14,176 | #11 | 7.8 |
| 1999 | 13,911 | #12 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 12,908 | #14 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 13,248 | #14 | 7.6 |
| 1996 | 12,595 | #16 | 7.2 |
| 1995 | 13,443 | #15 | 7.6 |
| 1994 | 15,158 | #14 | 8.5 |
| 1993 | 16,194 | #12 | 9.0 |
| 1992 | 17,215 | #12 | 9.3 |
| 1991 | 18,412 | #13 | 9.8 |
| 1990 | 20,506 | #10 | 10.8 |
| 1989 | 21,065 | #9 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 19,637 | #11 | 11.0 |
| 1987 | 16,710 | #16 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 16,684 | #14 | 9.7 |
| 1985 | 15,768 | #15 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 14,475 | #21 | 8.6 |
| 1983 | 12,944 | #24 | 7.7 |
| 1982 | 11,589 | #26 | 6.8 |
| 1981 | 8,813 | #35 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 7,476 | #38 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 5,625 | #45 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 3,669 | #80 | 2.4 |
| 1977 | 2,549 | #114 | 1.7 |
| 1976 | 2,216 | #125 | 1.5 |
| 1975 | 1,845 | #144 | 1.3 |
| 1974 | 1,393 | #187 | 0.95 |
| 1973 | 1,096 | #233 | 0.75 |
| 1972 | 1,006 | #262 | 0.66 |
| 1971 | 1,120 | #261 | 0.67 |
| 1970 | 1,308 | #241 | 0.75 |
| 1969 | 1,302 | #233 | 0.77 |
| 1968 | 1,140 | #243 | 0.69 |
| 1967 | 1,187 | #242 | 0.72 |
| 1966 | 1,186 | #244 | 0.70 |
| 1965 | 1,302 | #236 | 0.74 |
| 1964 | 1,376 | #234 | 0.73 |
| 1963 | 1,258 | #250 | 0.65 |
| 1962 | 1,122 | #267 | 0.57 |
| 1961 | 1,258 | #248 | 0.62 |
| 1960 | 1,335 | #239 | 0.66 |
| 1959 | 1,351 | #235 | 0.67 |
| 1958 | 1,346 | #225 | 0.67 |
| 1957 | 1,306 | #234 | 0.64 |
| 1956 | 934 | #287 | 0.47 |
| 1955 | 856 | #298 | 0.44 |
| 1954 | 735 | #313 | 0.38 |
| 1953 | 586 | #342 | 0.31 |
| 1952 | 515 | #363 | 0.28 |
| 1951 | 417 | #406 | 0.23 |
| 1950 | 425 | #392 | 0.25 |
| 1949 | 447 | #370 | 0.26 |
| 1948 | 422 | #387 | 0.25 |
| 1947 | 419 | #390 | 0.24 |
| 1946 | 415 | #370 | 0.26 |
| 1945 | 381 | #354 | 0.29 |
| 1944 | 46 | #1,164 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,391 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,153 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,135 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,092 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,597 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,001 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,563 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,764 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lauren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 481,395 Americans recorded as Lauren, 99% are girls and 1% boys. Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Lauren every year since 1945. In 2025 it went to 777 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lauren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lauren, and how old are they?
465,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 481,395 Americans ever recorded as Lauren. The median Lauren alive today is 34 years old; half are between 25 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 449,365 people named Lauren (446,061 women and girls, 3,304 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 463,240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 518 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14,100 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 33,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 246,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 148,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 22,400 |
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).
Where are babies named Lauren born?
The states with the most babies named Lauren are Texas, California and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 83 | #403 | 0.9× |
| California | 66 | #505 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 64 | #295 | 1.0× |
| New York | 36 | #476 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 35 | #262 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 30 | #372 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #464 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 23 | #477 | 1.0× |
| Wisconsin | 22 | #250 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #501 | 1.2× |
Where Lauren is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lauren is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lauren with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 581,883 babies since 1880, Lauren is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 777 of their 1,040 babies (75%), 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 Lauren
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 Lauren and names like it
- Compare Lauren and LorenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLauren peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lauren since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Lauren.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lauren alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.