Meaning not yet researched.
Larson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,090 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,090 in 2004; #2,628 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Larson in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,628 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #2,090.
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Larson: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,090 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 59 (2023).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Larson, making it the 2,628th most common boys’ name of the year, down 167 places from #2,461 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 56 boys named Larson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,090, reached in 2004. The most boys given the name in a single year was 59, in 2023. For comparison, it was #3,125 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Larson, making it the 9,813th most common girls’ name of the year, up 139 places from #9,952 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 10 girls named Larson in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #9,813, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 10. For comparison, it was #10,547 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Larson in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 1,771 US babies have been given the name, 5.3% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 449 babies named Larson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 519 US boys were named Larson; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 59. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Larson ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #887 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Larsen, Larsyn and Larsson are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Larsen (726), Larsyn (72), Larsson (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Larson 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #887 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,813 | 50 | #2,628 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,952 | 56 | #2,461 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,539 | 59 | #2,353 |
| 2022 | — | — | 56 | #2,483 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,633 | 48 | #2,679 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,478 | 56 | #2,384 |
| 2019 | — | — | 48 | #2,677 |
| 2018 | — | — | 44 | #2,774 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,305 | 55 | #2,373 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,710 | 47 | #2,647 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,547 | 37 | #3,125 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,042 | 38 | #3,018 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,104 | 23 | #4,262 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,213 |
| 2011 | — | — | 51 | #2,463 |
| 2010 | — | — | 39 | #2,987 |
| 2009 | — | — | 48 | #2,610 |
| 2008 | — | — | 45 | #2,741 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,666 | 41 | #2,900 |
| 2006 | — | — | 53 | #2,369 |
| 2005 | — | — | 34 | #3,061 |
| 2004 | — | — | 57 | #2,090 |
| 2003 | — | — | 46 | #2,336 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,710 | 32 | #2,920 |
| 2001 | — | — | 31 | #2,968 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,552 | 38 | #2,510 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #2,989 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,460 | 26 | #3,062 |
| 1997 | — | — | 26 | #2,948 |
| 1996 | — | — | 22 | #3,259 |
| 1995 | — | — | 26 | #2,814 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,206 |
| 1993 | — | — | 25 | #2,834 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,856 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,561 |
| 1990 | — | — | 19 | #3,253 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,929 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,913 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,904 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,566 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,543 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,406 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,856 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,414 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,360 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,144 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,364 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,715 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,164 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,243 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,819 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,130 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,201 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,945 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,746 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,222 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,761 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,207 |
| 1962 | — | — | 13 | #2,316 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,359 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,259 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,718 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,009 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,961 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,239 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,051 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,299 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,336 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,308 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,804 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,835 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #3,124 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,962 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,537 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,578 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,304 |
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).