Làurence

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Làurence is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the name of a third century Roman martyr, Latin Laurentius, "a person from Laurentum", the place name possibly derived from laurus (“laurel”) .

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 15K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 5.5K
  • SESweden1 in 38K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

22,752 people, 2020

Sources
457 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Laurence in US United States, SE Sweden, DK Denmark.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From the name of a third century Roman martyr, Latin Laurentius, "a person from Laurentum", the place name possibly derived from laurus (“laurel”) .

Sources 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Làurence counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Làurence is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#93522,7521 in 15K22KLaurence457
BR Brazil—5021 in 422K563—3
SE Sweden—2681 in 38K268Laurence29
GY Guyana—1371 in 5.5K137—3
ES Spain—1341 in 373K134—65
CR Costa Rica—631 in 81K63——
DK Denmark—501 in 117K28Laurence32

22,752 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Làurence under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Làurence mean, and where does it come from?
From the name of a third century Roman martyr, Latin Laurentius, "a person from Laurentum", the place name possibly derived from laurus (“laurel”) . Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
Is Làurence a male or female name?
Làurence is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Làurence have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Làurence, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laurence.
Where is Làurence most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Làurence is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 5.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Làurence?
In the United States, the national register counted 22,752 people named Làurence in 2020, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
How common is Làurence compared with other names?
In the United States, Làurence is the 935th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Làurence” — the 935th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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