Lawyer — boys' name

What the Data Says About Lawyer

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,021 babies named Lawyer between 1880 and 2021, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lawyer currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1930, when 31 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lawyer performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 174 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Lawyer shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 59 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Lawyer in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lawyer in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,021 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.