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Laureano vs Lauryn

American parents have registered 22,168 Lauryns since 1880, against 143 Laureanos. Lauryn is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Laureano against Lauryn, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Laureano Lauryn

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 71 years in which either name was published, Lauryn for 68 years and Laureano for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Laureano Lauryn
Total US births 14322,168
Most in one year 91,883
Babies in 2025 under 5148
Estimated living today 13022,000
Median age today 3121
Peak year 19751999
Best rank 3,659th boys167th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,452nd
First recorded 19301952
Girls / boys 0 / 14322,156 / 12

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Laureanos alive today are over 31; half the Lauryns are over 21. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Laureano Lauryn
France 152,115

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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