Lawernce
Lawernce was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 1,050 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lawernce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lawernce?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,673, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1956, the peak
Lawernce peaked in 1956, when 35 boys were given it, #1,309 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #8,673 | 2.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,314 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,241 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,618 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,740 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,718 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,589 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,668 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,746 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,543 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 17 | #2,253 | 9.1 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,202 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,399 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,129 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,136 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,324 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,605 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,612 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,772 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,976 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,086 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,784 | 9.8 |
| 1958 | 23 | #1,665 | 10.8 |
| 1957 | 26 | #1,564 | 12.1 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,309 | 16.5 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,940 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,737 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 26 | #1,494 | 13.2 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,333 | 16.5 |
| 1951 | 22 | #1,624 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 22 | #1,593 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,367 | 16.3 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,071 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,714 | 10.9 |
| 1946 | 19 | #1,674 | 11.7 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,237 | 21.5 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,931 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,233 | 22.4 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,564 | 15.2 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,726 | 13.8 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,716 | 14.7 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,763 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,719 | 15.3 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,149 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,526 | 19.3 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,733 | 16.3 |
| 1934 | 14 | #1,977 | 13.6 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,481 | 22.2 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,262 | 11.5 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,807 | 16.4 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,866 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,834 | 16.7 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,216 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,357 | 11.5 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,761 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,375 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,142 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,706 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,104 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,318 | 12.7 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,534 | 11.3 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,603 | 22.4 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,476 | 11.8 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,855 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,332 | 13.5 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,747 | 20.0 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,532 | 7.6 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,391 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,152 | 16.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lawernce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lawernce has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lawernce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lawernce, and how old are they?
An estimated 441 Americans named Lawernce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 61 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 338 people named Lawernce (0 women and girls, 338 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 536 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 473,027 babies since 1880, Lawernce is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 585 babies recorded by SSA was a Lawernce (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 Lawernce
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 Lawernce and names like it
- Compare Lawernce and LawrenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLawernce peaked in 1956.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lawernce since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Lawernce.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lawernce alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.