Lawerence
Lawerence was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 4,818 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Lawerence and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 56 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lawerence by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lawerence?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,229, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
125 babies in 1949, the peak
Lawerence peaked in 1949, when 125 boys were given it, #608 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #13,229 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,235 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,612 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,656 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,774 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,475 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,558 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,235 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,139 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,262 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 11 | #6,150 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,310 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,401 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,520 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,739 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,686 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,242 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,737 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,555 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,863 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,644 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,621 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,783 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,844 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,473 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,089 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,164 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,188 | 13.2 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,972 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,410 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,641 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,529 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,421 | 11.6 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,211 | 13.4 |
| 1975 | 26 | #1,864 | 16.7 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,516 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,084 | 12.8 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,296 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 25 | #1,809 | 14.1 |
| 1970 | 30 | #1,566 | 16.1 |
| 1969 | 39 | #1,270 | 21.8 |
| 1968 | 27 | #1,529 | 15.5 |
| 1967 | 34 | #1,300 | 19.5 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,271 | 20.2 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,308 | 18.8 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,167 | 22.1 |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,333 | 17.2 |
| 1962 | 52 | #1,062 | 25.1 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,087 | 24.5 |
| 1960 | 62 | #970 | 29.1 |
| 1959 | 62 | #981 | 29.0 |
| 1958 | 78 | #860 | 36.8 |
| 1957 | 105 | #732 | 48.7 |
| 1956 | 93 | #766 | 44.0 |
| 1955 | 108 | #705 | 52.4 |
| 1954 | 99 | #724 | 48.6 |
| 1953 | 99 | #718 | 50.2 |
| 1952 | 94 | #727 | 48.4 |
| 1951 | 108 | #672 | 57.4 |
| 1950 | 111 | #661 | 62.0 |
| 1949 | 125 | #608 | 70.5 |
| 1948 | 95 | #685 | 54.1 |
| 1947 | 87 | #740 | 47.6 |
| 1946 | 88 | #692 | 54.2 |
| 1945 | 68 | #746 | 50.5 |
| 1944 | 87 | #665 | 63.8 |
| 1943 | 83 | #705 | 58.2 |
| 1942 | 90 | #681 | 65.2 |
| 1941 | 71 | #735 | 57.8 |
| 1940 | 67 | #753 | 57.8 |
| 1939 | 90 | #616 | 81.3 |
| 1938 | 76 | #696 | 68.5 |
| 1937 | 64 | #768 | 60.0 |
| 1936 | 77 | #678 | 74.2 |
| 1935 | 85 | #643 | 81.6 |
| 1934 | 71 | #727 | 68.8 |
| 1933 | 75 | #689 | 75.6 |
| 1932 | 63 | #806 | 60.3 |
| 1931 | 57 | #836 | 54.8 |
| 1930 | 74 | #741 | 67.4 |
| 1929 | 64 | #809 | 59.5 |
| 1928 | 83 | #700 | 74.9 |
| 1927 | 77 | #745 | 68.3 |
| 1926 | 79 | #719 | 71.1 |
| 1925 | 75 | #763 | 67.2 |
| 1924 | 86 | #711 | 75.9 |
| 1923 | 71 | #788 | 64.8 |
| 1922 | 64 | #862 | 58.8 |
| 1921 | 70 | #819 | 63.6 |
| 1920 | 61 | #883 | 57.3 |
| 1919 | 64 | #820 | 65.3 |
| 1918 | 87 | #664 | 85.8 |
| 1917 | 60 | #828 | 64.8 |
| 1916 | 70 | #719 | 78.6 |
| 1915 | 51 | #866 | 60.1 |
| 1914 | 43 | #808 | 65.7 |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,012 | 48.8 |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,012 | 48.8 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,086 | 48.7 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,167 | 46.3 |
| 1909 | 14 | #788 | 85.4 |
| 1908 | 15 | #699 | 97.2 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,053 | 54.5 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,344 | 37.6 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,173 | 45.3 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,025 | 54.6 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,080 | 50.3 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,235 | 40.8 |
| 1901 | 7 | #901 | 65.7 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,007 | 53.2 |
| 1899 | 6 | #995 | 56.5 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,227 | 40.8 |
| 1897 | 7 | #895 | 62.1 |
| 1896 | 7 | #938 | 58.5 |
| 1895 | 9 | #770 | 76.7 |
| 1894 | 8 | #824 | 69.1 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,045 | 45.1 |
| 1881 | 5 | #950 | 49.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lawerence a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lawerence has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 118 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lawerence: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lawerence, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 40% of the 4,818 Americans ever recorded as Lawerence. The median Lawerence alive today is 69 years old; half are between 56 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 2,018 people named Lawerence (17 women and girls, 2,001 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,342 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 269 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,020 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 352 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 213 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 80 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
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 Lawerence born?
The states with the most babies named Lawerence are Illinois, California and Michigan, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 170 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 168 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 159 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 130 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 107 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 87 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 84 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 47 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 47 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 42 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Lawerence 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 473,027 babies since 1880, Lawerence is the second most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 585 babies recorded by SSA was a Lawerence (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lawerence
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 Lawerence and names like it
- Compare Lawerence and LawrenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sLawerence peaked in 1949.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lawerence since 1910.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Lawerence.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lawerence alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.