Laurence Boy Name

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The name Laurence is of English origin, and is derived from the name of a city in ancient Italy. The table below indicates the number of times the name Laurence has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Laurence**
Use of the Name Laurence for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
37,455	10,990	1,885	125	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Laurence has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Laurence last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1995, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Laurence**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	347	25
1881	311	28
1882	368	24
1883	315	28
1884	366	24
1885	293	33
1886	261	43
1887	316	28
1888	287	38
1889	308	32
1890	268	42
1891	258	39
1892	268	45
1893	237	53
1894	258	46
1895	232	58
1896	236	59
1897	206	69
1898	201	74
1899	209	63
1900	221	81
1901	224	60
1902	212	71
1903	202	77
1904	217	73
1905	218	77
1906	221	79
1907	229	78
1908	217	91
1909	234	89
1910	218	114
1911	234	120
1912	204	271
1913	209	314
1914	214	378
1915	221	464
1916	227	470
1917	221	496
1918	222	559
1919	227	532
1920	231	545
1921	223	599
1922	230	579
1923	240	545
1924	237	578
1925	240	545
1926	222	606
1927	227	585
1928	228	575
1929	218	584
1930	227	562
1931	229	515
1932	244	479
1933	254	426
1934	235	493
1935	263	423
1936	258	431
1937	253	450
1938	247	478
1939	221	547
1940	212	604
1941	243	525
1942	220	664
1943	225	646
1944	233	579
1945	228	593
1946	226	701
1947	232	780
1948	234	765
1949	226	796
1950	227	806
1951	230	816
1952	231	842
1953	250	747
1954	263	711
1955	284	640
1956	286	654
1957	310	602
1958	331	539
1959	341	519
1960	344	512
1961	337	543
1962	342	518
1963	342	505
1964	364	456
1965	411	365
1966	405	350
1967	408	348
1968	428	321
1969	449	301
1970	466	303
1971	532	228
1972	545	213
1973	556	203
1974	586	184
1975	608	179
1976	623	174
1977	675	157
1978	715	139
1979	692	152
1980	686	160
1981	666	167
1982	678	164
1983	751	132
1984	705	152
1985	756	138
1986	831	119
1987	877	114
1988	938	105
1989	821	146
1990	936	122
1991	989	118
1992	976	123
1993
1994
1995	996	125
Totals:		37,455		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Laurence as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Laurence appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 114 times during the last 125 years.

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Laurence Boy Name

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