Fewer than five US girls were named Laure in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,055, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 102. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #2,977 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Laure in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 1,717 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 606 babies named Laure.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5 US girls were named Laure; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 5.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Laura (804,390 babies since 1880), Laurette (3,106 babies since 1880) and Lore (1,118 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Laur, Lauire and Larre are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.