Laurent
Laurent was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,021 among boys’ names; 2,014 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Laurent and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 19 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laurent by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laurent mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Laurent is “a male given name, feminine equivalent Laurence, equivalent to English Laurence or Lawrence”
From Old French Lorenz, from Latin Laurentius.
/lɔ.ʁɑ̃/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laurent?
#6,021 among boys’ names, 2025
Laurent rose from #6,910 in 2015 to #6,021 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 8.8 per million.
39 babies in 1927, the peak
Laurent peaked in 1927, when 39 boys were given it, #1,155 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,021 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,057 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,074 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,386 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,568 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,157 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,267 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,441 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,952 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,409 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,910 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,893 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,297 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,893 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,489 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,924 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,065 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,624 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,397 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,472 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,906 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,362 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,539 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 15 | #5,043 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,295 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,143 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,309 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,119 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,399 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,937 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,633 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,018 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,317 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,735 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,365 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,097 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,325 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,620 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,439 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,571 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,317 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,662 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,861 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,387 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,382 | 11.7 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,186 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,471 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,744 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,989 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,235 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,501 | 10.9 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,721 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,456 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,489 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,090 | 11.3 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,689 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,264 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 19 | #1,872 | 10.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,889 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,856 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 22 | #1,696 | 11.8 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,265 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 20 | #1,812 | 9.8 |
| 1962 | 17 | #2,002 | 8.2 |
| 1961 | 22 | #1,762 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,748 | 10.3 |
| 1959 | 26 | #1,574 | 12.2 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,810 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,571 | 5.1 |
| 1956 | 23 | #1,666 | 10.9 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,013 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,795 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,927 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,213 | 6.7 |
| 1951 | 22 | #1,622 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,329 | 16.8 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,421 | 15.2 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,417 | 15.4 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,434 | 14.8 |
| 1946 | 19 | #1,673 | 11.7 |
| 1945 | 17 | #1,664 | 12.6 |
| 1944 | 16 | #1,788 | 11.7 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,478 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,329 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,152 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,042 | 11.2 |
| 1939 | 15 | #1,835 | 13.6 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,043 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,878 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,525 | 19.3 |
| 1935 | 14 | #1,991 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,081 | 12.6 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,798 | 16.1 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,690 | 18.2 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,412 | 24.0 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,268 | 29.2 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,431 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,243 | 30.7 |
| 1927 | 39 | #1,155 | 34.6 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,420 | 24.3 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,559 | 21.5 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,605 | 21.2 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,405 | 25.5 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,674 | 20.2 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,494 | 23.6 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,367 | 27.2 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,668 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,567 | 22.7 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,783 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,448 | 27.0 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,690 | 21.2 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,198 | 15.3 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,660 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,969 | 18.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Laurent a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laurent has been given almost only to boys: 20 girls in 114 years of records.
Girls and boys named Laurent: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laurent, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 60% of the 2,014 Americans ever recorded as Laurent. The median Laurent alive today is 40 years old; half are between 19 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 2,982 people named Laurent (186 women and girls, 2,796 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,176 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 51 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 255 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 208 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 264 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 195 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 239 |
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 Laurent born?
The states with the most babies named Laurent are Massachusetts, New York and California, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 161 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| New York | 64 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 61 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maine | 58 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| New Hampshire | 56 | not ranked | 6.4× |
| Rhode Island | 21 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Florida | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Laurent is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laurent is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1912 it was given 2.8 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 boys’ 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 Laurent with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Laurent
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 Laurent and names like it
- Compare Laurent and CelestinoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLaurent peaked in 1927.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laurent since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Laurent: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Laurent.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Laurent alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.