Lauren
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin: a laurel wreath or tree; crowned with laurels
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female
- Spain (INE): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 50 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˈlɑɹən/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Lauren is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Australia it is the 54th most common given name.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 550(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 740
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lauren itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- #247 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 637 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 545 (inferred from the name graph)
449,365 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, 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 Lorraine in CA Canada, ZA South Africa, IE Ireland and 1 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)Latin: a laurel wreath or tree; crowned with laurels
Cited for this meaning 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lauren, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lauren 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 | #111 | 449,365 | 1 in 740 | 446K | Lauren | 637 |
| GB United Kingdom | #83 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 853 | 4 | Lauren | 370 |
| AU Australia | #54 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 545 | 94 | Lauren | 286 |
| ZA South Africa | #97 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Lorraine | 143 |
| CA Canada | #135 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 13 | Lorraine | 286 |
| IE Ireland | #70 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 827 | 124 | Lorraine | 132 |
| NZ New Zealand | #110 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 13 | Lorraine | 171 |
449,365 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; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lauren is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Feminine form of Laurence; used in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
Feminine version of Laurence. The best known example is screen legend Lauren Bacall. Laurence [Labhras] (m) Latin, ‘of Laurentum’. This name was used to translate the name of St Lorcan (Laurence) O'Toole (died 1180). Lawrence was introduced into Ireland by the Anglo-Normans and became in Irish Labhras.
as a nameIrish first names
Apparently modelled on Laurence, this was first used, or at any rate first brought to public attention, by the film actress Lauren Bacall (born Betty Jean Perske in 1924), famous for her partnership with Humphrey Bogart. They appeared together in several films, especially To Have and Have Not (1943) and The Big Sleep (1946). See also Loren.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
from a Swedish vernacular form of the personal name Laurentius (see Lawrence, Lauri).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, Lauren är en engelsk eller normandisk bildning till latinets laurus ’lagerträd, -kvist’. Även formerna Laureen, Loren och Loreen förekommer. Lorin kan också vara ett kurdiskt namn bildat till ett ord med betydelsen ’vaggsång’. Kända namnbärare är den amerikanska skådespelerskan Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) och den svenska artisten Loreen (egentligen Lorine Zineb Noka Talhaoui, f. 1983).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jane Addamsb. 1860USnot in their usual nameAmerican feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)
- Laura Ingalls Wilderb. 1867USnot in their usual nameAmerican children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
- Laura Antonellib. 1941ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress (1941-2015)
- Laura Bushb. 1946USnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Lauren Hollyb. 1963USAmerican actress
- Laura Harringb. 1964MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress and Miss USA 1985
- Laura Dernb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and producer (born 1967)
- Winona Ryderb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Emily Bluntb. 1983GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1983)
- Amber Heardb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)94 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 446K | #103 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #103 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 777 | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | 124 | #46 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 87 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2012 | 75 | #97 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2009 | 71 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 13 | #323 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1996 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Lauren a male or female name?
- Lauren is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female; France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female; Spain (INE): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Lauren mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin: a laurel wreath or tree; crowned with laurels Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Lauren?
- In the etymology graph, Laura is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lauren?
- In English /ˈlɑɹən/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Lauren have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 449 thousand people named Lauren, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lauren.
- How common is the name Lauren?
- In the United States, the national register counted 449,365 people named Lauren in 2020, about 1 in 740 residents.
- How common is Lauren compared with other names?
- In the United States, Lauren is the 111th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laurenThe 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, “Lauren” — the 111th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.