Maclaren
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Gaelic Mac Labhruinn, ‘son of Lawrence’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məˈkɫɛɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maclaren is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 62K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 90K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
1,378 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Gaelic Mac Labhruinn, ‘son of Lawrence’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maclaren 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 | 1,378 | 1 in 241K | 1.4K | Maclaren | 258 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 62K | listed | Maclaren | 143 |
| CA Canada | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Maclaren | 114 |
| KE Kenya | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Maclaren | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 1 | Maclaren | 83 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Maclaren | 38 |
1,378 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; the bbc-pronouncing-dictionary-british-names register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–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)
Maclaren is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, From Gaelic MacLabhruinn, “son of Laurence”; linked to Labhran, Abbot of Achtow, with an early religious center in Balquhidder and Strathyre.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, Clan name; Johannes MacLern recorded in 1466. Associated with lands occupied by the MacLarens until the 16th century.
as a nameScottish Surnames
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)
- Archie MacLarenb. 1871GBCricket player of England. (1871-1944)
- Ian Maclarenb. 1875GBEnglish actor (1875-1952)
- David Laurence MacLarenb. 1893CACanadian politician (1893-1960)
- Mary MacLarenb. 1896USAmerican film actress (1896-1985)
- Roy MacLarenb. 1934CACanadian politician
- John Maclarenb. 1951CACanadian actor
- Michelle MacLarenb. 1965CACanadian television director and producer
- Fawna MacLarenb. 1965USAmerican actor and model
- Robert MacLarenb. 1966GBProfessor of Ophthalmology
- Jamie Maclarenb. 1993AUAustralian association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,617 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,087 |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Maclaren mean, and where does it come from?
- From Gaelic Mac Labhruinn, ‘son of Lawrence’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Maclaren?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈkɫɛɹən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Maclaren have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Maclaren, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maclaren.
- How common is the name Maclaren?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,378 people named Maclaren in 2010, about 1 in 241 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maclarenThe 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, “Maclaren”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.