Laurena — girls' name
1,004 babies named Laurena in U.S. Social Security records since 1885, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
11% of everyone ever named Laurena was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Laurena in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Laurena
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,004 babies named Laurena between 1885 and 2016, spanning 132 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Laurena currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Laurena performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 106 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Laurena shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Laurena in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Laurena 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 1,004 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.
Laurena at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Laurena popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1885
- Peak year (1920)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 132 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
1,004 total births across 132 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 16 births in a single year.
Laurena by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 106 births that decade — 11% of Laurena's all-time total
Laurena decade highlights
- Peak decade 106 births
- Runner-up 104 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Laurena's strongest decade
106 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 11% of all-time use.
Laurena by state
Where Laurena concentrates geographically — total births since 1885
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 15 | 1.5% |
15 of 1,004 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1885–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.