Laurene
Laurene was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 4,158 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Laurene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 60 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laurene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laurene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,622, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
137 babies in 1954, the peak
Laurene peaked in 1954, when 137 girls were given it, #802 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,622 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,653 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,923 | 4.3 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,832 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,029 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,812 | 2.6 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,004 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,179 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,961 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,676 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 8 | #10,103 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,719 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,509 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,118 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,115 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,699 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,193 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,200 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,615 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,534 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,866 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,880 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,164 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,435 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,368 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,602 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,170 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,149 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,904 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,844 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,337 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,718 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,339 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,773 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,972 | 24.6 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,158 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,738 | 28.0 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,608 | 30.3 |
| 1966 | 73 | #1,267 | 43.1 |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,472 | 32.3 |
| 1964 | 75 | #1,288 | 39.6 |
| 1963 | 87 | #1,175 | 45.1 |
| 1962 | 88 | #1,173 | 44.7 |
| 1961 | 131 | #944 | 64.9 |
| 1960 | 123 | #965 | 60.8 |
| 1959 | 117 | #979 | 57.8 |
| 1958 | 126 | #917 | 62.6 |
| 1957 | 109 | #996 | 53.3 |
| 1956 | 111 | #958 | 55.3 |
| 1955 | 109 | #946 | 55.7 |
| 1954 | 137 | #802 | 70.5 |
| 1953 | 98 | #959 | 52.1 |
| 1952 | 80 | #1,055 | 43.1 |
| 1951 | 71 | #1,105 | 39.4 |
| 1950 | 83 | #1,002 | 48.5 |
| 1949 | 95 | #912 | 55.5 |
| 1948 | 61 | #1,150 | 35.9 |
| 1947 | 75 | #1,025 | 42.3 |
| 1946 | 83 | #919 | 52.8 |
| 1945 | 72 | #892 | 55.1 |
| 1944 | 45 | #1,179 | 33.9 |
| 1943 | 72 | #918 | 51.6 |
| 1942 | 52 | #1,095 | 38.5 |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,111 | 37.2 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,210 | 32.4 |
| 1939 | 47 | #1,046 | 42.9 |
| 1938 | 40 | #1,154 | 36.2 |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,213 | 33.8 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,307 | 29.8 |
| 1935 | 43 | #1,064 | 41.0 |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,115 | 39.3 |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,233 | 33.7 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,467 | 25.3 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,525 | 23.5 |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,093 | 40.9 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,270 | 31.3 |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,351 | 28.6 |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,437 | 26.8 |
| 1926 | 52 | #1,039 | 43.9 |
| 1925 | 58 | #980 | 47.6 |
| 1924 | 66 | #936 | 52.8 |
| 1923 | 57 | #998 | 47.2 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,324 | 30.0 |
| 1921 | 54 | #1,023 | 43.8 |
| 1920 | 60 | #944 | 50.1 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,112 | 38.9 |
| 1918 | 58 | #941 | 50.1 |
| 1917 | 42 | #1,103 | 38.8 |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,156 | 36.4 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,426 | 26.4 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,283 | 31.5 |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,135 | 38.4 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,328 | 30.5 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,142 | 38.2 |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,187 | 37.8 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,125 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,283 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,218 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,193 | 37.3 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,360 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,566 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,506 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,520 | 26.5 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,727 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,440 | 27.1 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,123 | 38.4 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,718 | 21.0 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,292 | 31.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laurene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laurene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laurene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laurene, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 57% of the 4,158 Americans ever recorded as Laurene. The median Laurene alive today is 67 years old; half are between 60 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 2,790 people named Laurene (2,778 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,671 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 253 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,460 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 434 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 176 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 40 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 24 |
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 Laurene born?
The states with the most babies named Laurene are New York, California and Illinois, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 318 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 289 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 197 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 149 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 146 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 123 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 119 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Connecticut | 56 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 48 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Laurene 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 10,691 babies since 1880, Laurene is the most given (39% of them).
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 Laurene
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 Laurene and names like it
- Compare Laurene and LaurineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLaurene peaked in 1954.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laurene since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Laurene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Laurene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.