Lauro
Lauro was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,969 among boys’ names; 2,180 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,650 Americans named Lauro and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 21 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lauro by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lauro mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lauro is “a male given name.”
From the Italian surname, from a personal name derived from Latin laurus.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lauro?
#4,969 among boys’ names, 2025
Lauro rose from #4,982 in 2015 to #4,969 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.9 to 11.7 per million.
48 babies in 2000, the peak
Lauro peaked in 2000, when 48 boys were given it, #2,107 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,969 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,273 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,582 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,023 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,918 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,453 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,629 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,225 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,427 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,561 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,982 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,470 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,403 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,393 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,839 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,955 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,369 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,881 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 41 | #2,899 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,573 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 23 | #3,996 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,590 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,409 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,408 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,465 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,107 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,237 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,448 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,524 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,160 | 20.6 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,888 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,592 | 15.0 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,905 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 38 | #2,069 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,369 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,028 | 18.0 |
| 1989 | 31 | #2,224 | 15.5 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,278 | 14.1 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,242 | 13.9 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,031 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 35 | #1,749 | 18.9 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,495 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,380 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,757 | 18.2 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,734 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,752 | 18.5 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,133 | 13.9 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,435 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,102 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 29 | #1,768 | 18.5 |
| 1975 | 26 | #1,862 | 16.7 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,321 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,457 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,295 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 31 | #1,580 | 17.5 |
| 1970 | 26 | #1,729 | 14.0 |
| 1969 | 18 | #2,017 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,931 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 25 | #1,554 | 14.3 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,288 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,892 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 18 | #1,942 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,868 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,317 | 6.3 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,975 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,014 | 8.0 |
| 1959 | 19 | #1,896 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 23 | #1,664 | 10.8 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,736 | 10.2 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,134 | 7.1 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,014 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,074 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 21 | #1,694 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,906 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,439 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 21 | #1,635 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,531 | 13.5 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,788 | 10.3 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,586 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,053 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,195 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,042 | 9.5 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,122 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,826 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,418 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,855 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,542 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,044 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,879 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,130 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 14 | #1,992 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,191 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,480 | 22.2 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,398 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,891 | 15.4 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,898 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,523 | 10.2 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,962 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,673 | 19.5 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,270 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 19 | #1,841 | 17.0 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,813 | 17.7 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,180 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,102 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,566 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,089 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,008 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,474 | 11.8 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,783 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,243 | 5.6 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,529 | 7.6 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,632 | 23.4 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,743 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lauro a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lauro has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 113 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lauro: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lauro, and how old are they?
1,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 2,180 Americans ever recorded as Lauro. The median Lauro alive today is 36 years old; half are between 21 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 3,875 people named Lauro (30 women and girls, 3,845 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,636 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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 | 42 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 212 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 314 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 438 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 418 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 223 |
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 Lauro born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,014 | 6.4× |
Where Lauro is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lauro is most over-represented in Texas: since 1912 it was given 6.4 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 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 Lauro 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 816,222 babies since 1880, Lauro is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 218 babies (9.2%), again the second 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 Lauro
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 Lauro and names like it
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lauro since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Lauro.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lauro alive today were born 1981-1996.
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