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Lauree vs Lauryn

American parents have registered 22,168 Lauryns since 1880, against 756 Laurees. Lauryn is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lauree 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 101 years in which either name was published, Lauryn for 52 years and Lauree for 49 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Lauree Lauryn
Total US births 75622,168
Most in one year 331,883
Babies in 2025 under 5148
Estimated living today 54022,000
Median age today 6221
Peak year 19591999
Best rank 1,951st girls167th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,452nd
First recorded 19141952
Girls / boys 756 / 022,156 / 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 Laurees alive today are over 62; half the Lauryns are over 21. That is 41 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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