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Larraine vs Larue

American parents have registered 5,520 Larues since 1880, against 1,258 Larraines. Larue is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Larraine against Larue, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Larraine Larue

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 121 years in which either name was published, Larue for 119 years and Larraine for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Larraine Larue
Total US births 1,2585,520
Most in one year 66185
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 7301,700
Median age today 7271
Peak year 19471920
Best rank 1,097th girls590th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,917th
First recorded 19151893
Girls / boys 1,258 / 03,980 / 1,540

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Larraine and Larue.