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Lauren: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 777 in 2025. Its best rank was #9 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #9 in 1989; #401 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lauren in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#401 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #9.
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Lauren: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 777 girls in 2025. Peak: #9 in 1989 · most girls in one year: 21,065 (1989).
In 2025, 777 US girls were named Lauren, making it the 401st most common girls’ name of the year, down 50 places from #351 in 2024. That is 105 fewer than the 882 girls named Lauren in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #9, reached in 1989. That year also had the most girls given the name: 21,065. For comparison, it was #119 in 2015 and #393 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lauren in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 5 babies. In all, 481,395 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 154,043 babies named Lauren.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 13,328 US girls were named Lauren; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,325. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,069 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lauren ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #157 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Laura (804,390 babies since 1880), Loren (59,320 babies since 1880), Lauryn (22,168 babies since 1880) and Laureen (7,127 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lawren, Laren and Larene are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Laurie and Ren.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English, French and Latin. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lawren (1,157), Laren (921), Larene (866), Laurynn (662), Lareen (448), Laryn (410), Laurann (218), Laruen (156), Larin (145), Larron (142), Larren (101), Laurren (85), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 7 | #157 | #129 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #191 | #138 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #194 | #173 |
| Kansas | 16 | #208 | #117 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #223 | #56 |
| Wisconsin | 22 | #250 | #86 |
| South Carolina | 20 | #255 | #72 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #259 | #59 |
| Michigan | 35 | #262 | #73 |
| Alabama | 17 | #290 | #43 |
| Florida | 64 | #295 | #95 |
| Idaho | 7 | #330 | #173 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #338 | #143 |
| Iowa | 10 | #343 | #45 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #344 | #192 |
| Georgia | 30 | #372 | #70 |
| Washington | 19 | #378 | #126 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #383 | #170 |
| Tennessee | 20 | #402 | #110 |
| Indiana | 17 | #403 | #88 |
| Texas | 83 | #403 | #122 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #405 | #108 |
| Maryland | 13 | #407 | #167 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #413 | #58 |
| Virginia | 18 | #450 | #96 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #464 | #110 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #475 | #215 |
| New York | 36 | #476 | #141 |
| Ohio | 23 | #477 | #137 |
| Colorado | 12 | #479 | #149 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #501 | #159 |
| California | 66 | #505 | #160 |
| Utah | 8 | #516 | #212 |
| Missouri | 11 | #540 | #144 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #551 | #150 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #584 | #234 |
| Illinois | 17 | #587 | #149 |
| Oregon | 6 | #593 | #144 |
| Arizona | 10 | #658 | #140 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 777 | #401 | — | — |
| 2024 | 882 | #351 | 5 | #13,426 |
| 2023 | 900 | #343 | — | — |
| 2022 | 987 | #327 | 7 | #10,413 |
| 2021 | 969 | #337 | 9 | #8,562 |
| 2020 | 1,278 | #232 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,513 | #202 | 7 | #10,379 |
| 2018 | 1,705 | #174 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,992 | #148 | 5 | #13,451 |
| 2016 | 2,325 | #134 | 8 | #9,351 |
| 2015 | 2,697 | #119 | 7 | #10,187 |
| 2014 | 3,097 | #94 | 7 | #10,279 |
| 2013 | 3,350 | #92 | 11 | #7,347 |
| 2012 | 3,660 | #72 | 14 | #6,194 |
| 2011 | 4,100 | #62 | 9 | #8,495 |
| 2010 | 4,466 | #58 | 9 | #8,518 |
| 2009 | 5,204 | #46 | 7 | #10,546 |
| 2008 | 6,455 | #30 | 12 | #7,021 |
| 2007 | 7,437 | #28 | 18 | #5,133 |
| 2006 | 8,498 | #24 | 17 | #5,214 |
| 2005 | 9,249 | #21 | 31 | #3,286 |
| 2004 | 9,983 | #16 | 47 | #2,401 |
| 2003 | 11,051 | #15 | 23 | #3,795 |
| 2002 | 12,327 | #13 | 34 | #2,796 |
| 2001 | 12,782 | #15 | 29 | #3,110 |
| 2000 | 14,176 | #11 | 29 | #3,042 |
| 1999 | 13,911 | #12 | 37 | #2,439 |
| 1998 | 12,908 | #14 | 26 | #3,063 |
| 1997 | 13,248 | #14 | 37 | #2,289 |
| 1996 | 12,595 | #16 | 36 | #2,282 |
| 1995 | 13,443 | #15 | 42 | #2,007 |
| 1994 | 15,158 | #14 | 40 | #2,066 |
| 1993 | 16,194 | #12 | 33 | #2,325 |
| 1992 | 17,215 | #12 | 44 | #1,867 |
| 1991 | 18,412 | #13 | 64 | #1,425 |
| 1990 | 20,506 | #10 | 94 | #1,107 |
| 1989 | 21,065 | #9 | 134 | #873 |
| 1988 | 19,637 | #11 | 99 | #975 |
| 1987 | 16,710 | #16 | 109 | #902 |
| 1986 | 16,684 | #14 | 81 | #1,033 |
| 1985 | 15,768 | #15 | 114 | #842 |
| 1984 | 14,475 | #21 | 95 | #905 |
| 1983 | 12,944 | #24 | 99 | #887 |
| 1982 | 11,589 | #26 | 75 | #1,053 |
| 1981 | 8,813 | #35 | 77 | #1,040 |
| 1980 | 7,476 | #38 | 57 | #1,221 |
| 1979 | 5,625 | #45 | 51 | #1,294 |
| 1978 | 3,669 | #80 | 49 | #1,293 |
| 1977 | 2,549 | #114 | 33 | #1,657 |
| 1976 | 2,216 | #125 | 37 | #1,484 |
| 1975 | 1,845 | #144 | 32 | #1,610 |
| 1974 | 1,393 | #187 | 30 | #1,639 |
| 1973 | 1,096 | #233 | 31 | #1,570 |
| 1972 | 1,006 | #262 | 30 | #1,586 |
| 1971 | 1,120 | #261 | 45 | #1,247 |
| 1970 | 1,308 | #241 | 42 | #1,287 |
| 1969 | 1,302 | #233 | 53 | #1,071 |
| 1968 | 1,140 | #243 | 41 | #1,197 |
| 1967 | 1,187 | #242 | 35 | #1,281 |
| 1966 | 1,186 | #244 | 38 | #1,227 |
| 1965 | 1,302 | #236 | 54 | #1,008 |
| 1964 | 1,376 | #234 | 44 | #1,167 |
| 1963 | 1,258 | #250 | 61 | #967 |
| 1962 | 1,122 | #267 | 53 | #1,052 |
| 1961 | 1,258 | #248 | 51 | #1,102 |
| 1960 | 1,335 | #239 | 59 | #1,001 |
| 1959 | 1,351 | #235 | 59 | #1,008 |
| 1958 | 1,346 | #225 | 75 | #875 |
| 1957 | 1,306 | #234 | 61 | #978 |
| 1956 | 934 | #287 | 63 | #944 |
| 1955 | 856 | #298 | 68 | #903 |
| 1954 | 735 | #313 | 73 | #858 |
| 1953 | 586 | #343 | 65 | #894 |
| 1952 | 515 | #364 | 89 | #749 |
| 1951 | 417 | #407 | 86 | #756 |
| 1950 | 425 | #393 | 74 | #793 |
| 1949 | 447 | #370 | 76 | #792 |
| 1948 | 422 | #387 | 72 | #801 |
| 1947 | 419 | #390 | 91 | #721 |
| 1946 | 415 | #370 | 80 | #735 |
| 1945 | 381 | #354 | 62 | #787 |
| 1944 | 46 | #1,165 | 65 | #779 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,392 | 86 | #696 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,154 | 61 | #837 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,137 | 77 | #706 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,094 | 64 | #777 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,599 | 77 | #678 |
| 1938 | — | — | 80 | #678 |
| 1937 | — | — | 87 | #626 |
| 1936 | — | — | 58 | #808 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,003 | 60 | #800 |
| 1934 | — | — | 69 | #738 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,565 | 52 | #860 |
| 1932 | — | — | 56 | #857 |
| 1931 | — | — | 76 | #694 |
| 1930 | — | — | 56 | #887 |
| 1929 | — | — | 75 | #726 |
| 1928 | — | — | 64 | #822 |
| 1927 | — | — | 67 | #817 |
| 1926 | — | — | 55 | #908 |
| 1925 | — | — | 67 | #812 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,766 | 67 | #830 |
| 1923 | — | — | 51 | #969 |
| 1922 | — | — | 63 | #869 |
| 1921 | — | — | 73 | #796 |
| 1920 | — | — | 67 | #822 |
| 1919 | — | — | 67 | #794 |
| 1918 | — | — | 69 | #786 |
| 1917 | — | — | 47 | #940 |
| 1916 | — | — | 43 | #978 |
| 1915 | — | — | 44 | #947 |
| 1914 | — | — | 42 | #830 |
| 1913 | — | — | 28 | #941 |
| 1912 | — | — | 19 | #1,077 |
| 1911 | — | — | 12 | #1,017 |
| 1910 | — | — | 12 | #962 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,219 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,274 |
| 1906 | — | — | 7 | #1,067 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,173 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,312 |
| 1900 | — | — | 9 | #943 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,188 |
| 1895 | — | — | 6 | #1,034 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,089 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,056 |
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).