Laurette
Laurette was last recorded in 2015, when 8 babies were given it; 3,106 Americans have been recorded with it between 1890 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Laurette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 61 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laurette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laurette mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Laurette is “a female given name, variant of Lauretta.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laurette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,464, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
85 babies in 1956, the peak
Laurette peaked in 1956, when 85 girls were given it, #1,122 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,464 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,634 | 2.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,071 | 2.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,381 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,560 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,892 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,631 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,551 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,697 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,750 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 10 | #6,591 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,742 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,960 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,330 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,991 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,484 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,845 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,600 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,377 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,340 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,967 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,615 | 16.0 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,185 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,588 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,354 | 16.4 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,685 | 26.6 |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,473 | 32.3 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,649 | 25.9 |
| 1963 | 53 | #1,556 | 27.5 |
| 1962 | 61 | #1,422 | 31.0 |
| 1961 | 64 | #1,401 | 31.7 |
| 1960 | 79 | #1,229 | 39.1 |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,281 | 34.6 |
| 1958 | 72 | #1,256 | 35.8 |
| 1957 | 58 | #1,393 | 28.4 |
| 1956 | 85 | #1,122 | 42.3 |
| 1955 | 62 | #1,284 | 31.7 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,924 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,517 | 22.3 |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,306 | 29.1 |
| 1951 | 65 | #1,164 | 36.1 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,420 | 24.5 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,553 | 21.0 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,631 | 19.4 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,475 | 23.1 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,346 | 26.7 |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,405 | 25.2 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,528 | 21.9 |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,384 | 25.8 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,401 | 25.2 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,461 | 24.0 |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,162 | 35.0 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,705 | 19.1 |
| 1938 | 31 | #1,328 | 28.1 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,605 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,218 | 33.6 |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,215 | 33.4 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,198 | 34.5 |
| 1933 | 31 | #1,296 | 30.8 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,169 | 35.6 |
| 1931 | 46 | #1,034 | 43.2 |
| 1930 | 44 | #1,121 | 39.1 |
| 1929 | 45 | #1,097 | 40.3 |
| 1928 | 39 | #1,227 | 33.8 |
| 1927 | 64 | #945 | 53.7 |
| 1926 | 57 | #993 | 48.1 |
| 1925 | 61 | #956 | 50.1 |
| 1924 | 56 | #1,038 | 44.8 |
| 1923 | 71 | #874 | 58.9 |
| 1922 | 64 | #921 | 53.3 |
| 1921 | 60 | #961 | 48.7 |
| 1920 | 48 | #1,080 | 40.1 |
| 1919 | 51 | #1,014 | 45.1 |
| 1918 | 54 | #981 | 46.6 |
| 1917 | 42 | #1,104 | 38.8 |
| 1916 | 49 | #987 | 46.9 |
| 1915 | 36 | #1,147 | 36.6 |
| 1914 | 43 | #892 | 56.5 |
| 1913 | 37 | #876 | 59.2 |
| 1912 | 29 | #949 | 52.0 |
| 1911 | 22 | #946 | 52.6 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,028 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,126 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 17 | #986 | 50.9 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,015 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,491 | 27.1 |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,266 | 34.3 |
| 1904 | 20 | #818 | 72.6 |
| 1903 | 16 | #881 | 61.1 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,385 | 30.3 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,408 | 29.2 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,371 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,060 | 42.9 |
| 1898 | 13 | #991 | 50.2 |
| 1897 | 14 | #882 | 59.8 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,085 | 42.0 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,089 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,422 | 26.9 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,426 | 26.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laurette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laurette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laurette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laurette, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 44% of the 3,106 Americans ever recorded as Laurette. The median Laurette alive today is 67 years old; half are between 61 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 2,097 people named Laurette (2,096 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,590 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above 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 | 174 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 817 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 294 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 58 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8 |
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 Laurette born?
The states with the most babies named Laurette are New York, Maine and New Hampshire, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maine and New Hampshire are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 379 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Maine | 240 | not ranked | 12.3× |
| New Hampshire | 195 | not ranked | 16.5× |
| Massachusetts | 177 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 131 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 55 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 14 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Laurette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laurette is most over-represented in New Hampshire: since 1910 it was given 16.5 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 Laurette 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,477 babies since 1880, Laurette is the second most given (23% 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 Laurette
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 Laurette and names like it
- Compare Laurette and LaurettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLaurette peaked in 1956.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laurette since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Laurette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Laurette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.