Laural
Laural is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195752 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1918
- 1,058people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,058 girls have been named Laural in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 52 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 52 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1950s alone account for 24%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Laural | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 31 | |
| 1930s | 27 | |
| 1940s | 140 | |
| 1950s | 253 | |
| 1960s | 239 | |
| 1970s | 128 | |
| 1980s | 95 | |
| 1990s | 82 | |
| 2000s | 53 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Laural was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Laural
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dreamapeak 1958
- Maribethpeak 1957
- Carenpeak 1957
- Tonipeak 1960
- Sherilynpeak 1946
- Dianapeak 1957
- Diannapeak 1957
- Julenepeak 1958
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.