Lazer — #3105 US boys' name
791 babies named Lazer in U.S. Social Security records since 1958, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 78% of names given to boys today.
40% of everyone ever named Lazer was born in this single decade.
55 babies were named Lazer in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lazer
The Social Security Administration has registered 791 babies named Lazer between 1958 and 2024, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lazer currently holds the #3105 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 55 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lazer performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 317 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Lazer shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 549 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lazer in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lazer 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 791 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.
Lazer at a glance
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Current rank
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Lazer popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1958
- Peak year (2023)
- 55
- Annual births at peak — across 67 years of records
Currently ranks #3105 among boys.
791 total births across 67 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 55 births in a single year.
Lazer by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 317 births that decade — 40% of Lazer's all-time total
Lazer decade highlights
- Peak decade 317 births
- Runner-up 214 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Lazer's strongest decade
317 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Lazer by state
Where Lazer concentrates geographically — total births since 1958
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 549 | 69.4% |
549 of 791 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 69.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 69.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1958–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.