How popular is the name Lauren?

Lauren ranks 73rd among girls' names in US records, with 512,255 births since 1909. Over the past decade it accounts for 20,276.

Is Lauren a unisex name?

No. Lauren is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1989, when 21,840 children were given the name. It has been in use for 116 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Lauryn, Loren, Lauran, Loran, Laurann. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#73 of girl names

Pronounced L AO1 R AE2 N (ARPABET)

Lauren is a girls' name, and first appears in 1909. It has been given to 512,255 children — the 73rd most common girls' name on record.

It is falling away, down 68% on the previous decade. Its best single year was 1989, when 21,840 children were given it.

Five other spellings are counted in that total — Lauryn, Loren, Lauran and two more — because they are pronounced identically.

198921,840

These spellings sound identical to Lauren and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Lauren?: Lauren ranks 73rd among girls' names in US records, with 512,255 births since 1909. Over the past decade it accounts for 20,276.
Is Lauren a unisex name?: No. Lauren is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Lauren most popular?: 1989, when 21,840 children were given the name. It has been in use for 116 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Lauren spelled?: Lauryn, Loren, Lauran, Loran, Laurann. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.