Lawrence

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Lawrence is ranked 509th among boys in 2024 (596 births). Its best rank was 30th, in 1942, 1945.

Rank in 2024: #509up 49 from 2023
Births in 2024: 5960.03% of boys
Peak year: 195210,302 births
Best rank: #30first in 1942
Since 1880: 462,765people given the name

Babies named Lawrence, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

460,585 boys have been named Lawrence in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1952, with 10,302 births — 0.53% of all boys recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 460 → 509).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1950s alone account for 20%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 93 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,180 girls have also been given it, 0.47% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Lawrence
1880s	2,919
1890s	4,597
1900s	6,846
1910s	36,354
1920s	56,867
1930s	54,486
1940s	80,459
1950s	91,109
1960s	51,341
1970s	26,663
1980s	19,641
1990s	13,155
2000s	7,614
2010s	5,894
2020s	2,640

In 1952, its biggest year

Lawrence was the 35th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1952 were James, Robert, John, Michael and David. See all of 1952.

Names that rose and fell with Lawrence

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.