Laurél
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data, 2013
Laurél is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Laurel, from laurel. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . The municipality in Batangas is named after Jose P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 8.3K
- GYGuyana1 in 8.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 494 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
40,185 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Laurel in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 2 more.
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 Spanish Laurel, from laurel. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . The municipality in Batangas is named after Jose P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Laurél 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 40,185 | 1 in 8.3K | 39K | Laurel | 494 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 3 | Laurel | 156 |
| CA Canada | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 1 | Laurel | 200 |
| AU Australia | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 3 | Laurel | 123 |
| DE Germany | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 83K | 2 | Laurel | 62 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 13 | — | 47 |
| GY Guyana | 90 | 1 in 8.3K | 90 | — | 3 |
40,185 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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2013 | 2 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Laurél mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Laurel, from laurel. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . The municipality in Batangas is named after Jose P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Is Laurél a male or female name?
- Laurél is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Laurél have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Laurél, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laurel.
- How common is the name Laurél?
- In the United States, the national register counted 40,185 people named Laurél in 2020, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laur%C3%A9lThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Laurél”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.