Fewer than five US girls were named Lauran in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,904, reached in 1989. That year also had the most girls given the name: 69. For comparison, it was #15,575 in 2015 and #3,564 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lauran in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 11 babies. In all, 1,468 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 438 babies named Lauran.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10 US girls were named Lauran; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 5.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lauren (481,395 babies since 1880), Lauryn (22,168 babies since 1880), Laureen (7,127 babies since 1880) and Laron (5,312 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lauraann are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.