Laure
About 1,717 American babies have been named Laure since 1886, most of them around 1959. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 1,400 Laures are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Laure
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,717
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 1,055th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1886
How old the living Laures are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,717 babies given the name since 1886, about 1,400 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 11 of them are children and 520 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Laures
- Laure Manaudou (born 1986)French swimmer
- Laure Boulleau (born 1986)French footballer
- Laure Calamy (born 1974)French actress
- Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès (1784–1838)French writer and memoirist
- Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (born 1983)French actress
- Laure Sainclair (born 1972)French pornographic actress
- Laure Pequegnot (born 1975)alpine skier
- Laure Killing (1959–2019)French actress
People named Laure with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Laure is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Laure is most concentrated in Wisconsin (5.7×), Minnesota (3.8×), Michigan (3.0×), New York (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular girls’ names the year Laure peaked:
Laure elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Laure | 83,755 | 39th |
| Belgium girls | Laure | 3,345 | 44th |
| Switzerland girls | Laure | 210 | 262nd |
| France boys | Laure | 65 | 1,104th |
| England and Wales girls | Laure | 12 | 5,581st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Laure: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Laure | 29 | 0.002% | 524th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Laure | 180 | 0.041% | 77th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Laure | 1 | 0.002% | 188th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Laure is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 39 of them.
Laure: rank by region
In 2025, Laure was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Laure | 370 | 14 |
| Wallonia | Laure | 365 | 7 |
In 2015, Laure was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Laure | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Laure appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (138th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Laure among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Laure | 9 | 24 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Laure against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.