Meaning not yet researched.
Lars: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #737 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #737 in 1961; #1,897 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lars in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,897 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #737.
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Lars: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 boys in 2025. Peak: #737 in 1961 · most boys in one year: 128 (2000).
In 2025, 83 US boys were named Lars, making it the 1,897th most common boys’ name of the year, up 284 places from #2,181 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 67 boys named Lars in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #737, reached in 1961. The most boys given the name in a single year was 128, in 2000. For comparison, it was #1,711 in 2015 and #1,244 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lars in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 7 babies. In all, 7,035 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,136 babies named Lars.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 807 US boys were named Lars; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,579 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lars ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #615 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lawrence (463,357 babies since 1880), Lorenzo (86,066 babies since 1880), Laurence (40,215 babies since 1880) and Lauri (11,246 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Larz are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Larz (171).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Lars in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 8 | #615 | #489 |
| Washington | 10 | #665 | #736 |
| Utah | 5 | #763 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,926 | #1,707 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 83 | #1,897 |
| 2024 | — | — | 67 | #2,181 |
| 2023 | — | — | 67 | #2,164 |
| 2022 | — | — | 95 | #1,757 |
| 2021 | — | — | 59 | #2,343 |
| 2020 | — | — | 83 | #1,806 |
| 2019 | — | — | 69 | #2,102 |
| 2018 | — | — | 87 | #1,772 |
| 2017 | — | — | 88 | #1,759 |
| 2016 | — | — | 109 | #1,538 |
| 2015 | — | — | 91 | #1,711 |
| 2014 | — | — | 83 | #1,809 |
| 2013 | — | — | 95 | #1,620 |
| 2012 | — | — | 84 | #1,779 |
| 2011 | — | — | 74 | #1,896 |
| 2010 | — | — | 89 | #1,722 |
| 2009 | — | — | 95 | #1,660 |
| 2008 | — | — | 102 | #1,569 |
| 2007 | — | — | 125 | #1,348 |
| 2006 | — | — | 101 | #1,506 |
| 2005 | — | — | 116 | #1,312 |
| 2004 | — | — | 111 | #1,332 |
| 2003 | — | — | 117 | #1,243 |
| 2002 | — | — | 127 | #1,129 |
| 2001 | — | — | 114 | #1,197 |
| 2000 | — | — | 128 | #1,103 |
| 1999 | — | — | 103 | #1,225 |
| 1998 | — | — | 109 | #1,156 |
| 1997 | — | — | 95 | #1,229 |
| 1996 | — | — | 97 | #1,186 |
| 1995 | — | — | 91 | #1,217 |
| 1994 | — | — | 89 | #1,227 |
| 1993 | — | — | 88 | #1,200 |
| 1992 | — | — | 88 | #1,192 |
| 1991 | — | — | 74 | #1,310 |
| 1990 | — | — | 84 | #1,193 |
| 1989 | — | — | 80 | #1,201 |
| 1988 | — | — | 84 | #1,089 |
| 1987 | — | — | 68 | #1,169 |
| 1986 | — | — | 75 | #1,083 |
| 1985 | — | — | 69 | #1,121 |
| 1984 | — | — | 81 | #991 |
| 1983 | — | — | 100 | #882 |
| 1982 | — | — | 82 | #1,003 |
| 1981 | — | — | 77 | #1,039 |
| 1980 | — | — | 99 | #903 |
| 1979 | — | — | 105 | #848 |
| 1978 | — | — | 64 | #1,096 |
| 1977 | — | — | 68 | #1,050 |
| 1976 | — | — | 79 | #940 |
| 1975 | — | — | 75 | #949 |
| 1974 | — | — | 79 | #917 |
| 1973 | — | — | 76 | #927 |
| 1972 | — | — | 87 | #863 |
| 1971 | — | — | 89 | #868 |
| 1970 | — | — | 104 | #799 |
| 1969 | — | — | 93 | #803 |
| 1968 | — | — | 88 | #792 |
| 1967 | — | — | 96 | #754 |
| 1966 | — | — | 82 | #808 |
| 1965 | — | — | 82 | #818 |
| 1964 | — | — | 90 | #794 |
| 1963 | — | — | 79 | #853 |
| 1962 | — | — | 95 | #784 |
| 1961 | — | — | 110 | #737 |
| 1960 | — | — | 61 | #978 |
| 1959 | — | — | 94 | #791 |
| 1958 | — | — | 74 | #882 |
| 1957 | — | — | 54 | #1,035 |
| 1956 | — | — | 54 | #1,023 |
| 1955 | — | — | 41 | #1,176 |
| 1954 | — | — | 44 | #1,128 |
| 1953 | — | — | 36 | #1,252 |
| 1952 | — | — | 40 | #1,175 |
| 1951 | — | — | 29 | #1,390 |
| 1950 | — | — | 34 | #1,244 |
| 1949 | — | — | 29 | #1,367 |
| 1948 | — | — | 34 | #1,243 |
| 1947 | — | — | 15 | #2,033 |
| 1946 | — | — | 16 | #1,856 |
| 1945 | — | — | 20 | #1,516 |
| 1944 | — | — | 21 | #1,509 |
| 1943 | — | — | 18 | #1,739 |
| 1942 | — | — | 25 | #1,403 |
| 1941 | — | — | 15 | #1,862 |
| 1940 | — | — | 22 | #1,453 |
| 1939 | — | — | 19 | #1,559 |
| 1938 | — | — | 15 | #1,862 |
| 1937 | — | — | 27 | #1,298 |
| 1936 | — | — | 16 | #1,761 |
| 1935 | — | — | 15 | #1,880 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,189 |
| 1933 | — | — | 14 | #1,965 |
| 1932 | — | — | 10 | #2,550 |
| 1931 | — | — | 12 | #2,274 |
| 1930 | — | — | 13 | #2,242 |
| 1929 | — | — | 14 | #2,150 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,109 |
| 1927 | — | — | 14 | #2,246 |
| 1926 | — | — | 14 | #2,258 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,680 |
| 1924 | — | — | 9 | #3,140 |
| 1923 | — | — | 17 | #1,985 |
| 1922 | — | — | 10 | #2,915 |
| 1921 | — | — | 21 | #1,743 |
| 1920 | — | — | 14 | #2,289 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,265 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,474 |
| 1917 | — | — | 24 | #1,464 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,646 |
| 1915 | — | — | 17 | #1,747 |
| 1914 | — | — | 16 | #1,582 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,659 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,432 |
| 1901 | — | — | 8 | #816 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,152 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #999 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,043 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,055 |
| 1883 | — | — | 7 | #767 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).