Lauren
Lauren reached its high-water mark in 1989 at number 9, and has been recorded 481,395 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 401st. About 465,000 Laurens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lauren boys named Lauren
Girls and boys called Lauren
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Lauren crossed from boys to girls in 1945, and has stayed there for 81 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 113 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 481,395
- Estimated living today
- 465,000
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 9th
- Rank in 2025
- 401st
- First recorded
- 1884
- Girls / boys
- 475,577 / 5,818
How old the living Laurens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 481,395 babies given the name since 1884, about 465,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 46,000 of them are children and 10,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 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 Laurens
- Lauren Bacall (1924–2014)American actress
- Lauren Graham (born 1967)American actress, producer and novelist
- Lauren Cohan (born 1982)American-British actress
- Lauren Holly (born 1963)American actress
- Lauren German (born 1978)American actress
- Lauren Hutton (born 1943)American model, actress, and entrepreneur
- Lauren Jauregui (born 1996)American singer and songwriter
- Lauren Ambrose (born 1978)American actress
People named Lauren with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lauren is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lauren is most concentrated in Delaware (1.8×), New Jersey (1.5×), Connecticut (1.5×), Maryland (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular girls’ names the year Lauren peaked:
Lauren elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Lauren | 50,692 | 5th |
| Scotland girls | Lauren | 13,638 | 1st |
| Ireland girls | Lauren | 10,040 | 8th |
| France girls | Lauren | 4,075 | 210th |
| New Zealand girls | Lauren | 3,275 | 19th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Lauren | 2,428 | 5th |
| Belgium girls | Lauren | 2,297 | 56th |
| Belgium boys | Lauren | 40 | 694th |
| Poland girls | Lauren | 29 birth registrations | 362nd |
| England and Wales boys | Lauren | 3 | 2,863rd |
| Poland boys | Lauren | 2 birth registrations | 598th |
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.
Lauren: rank by region
In 2025, Lauren was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lauren | 287 | 19 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lauren appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (164th) and Province of Antwerp (276th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – 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.
Lauren 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Lauren | 2,996 | 4,240 |
| the Netherlands boys | Lauren | 112 | 258 |
| Finland girls | Lauren | 62 | 121 |
| Finland boys | Lauren | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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.
Where Lauren lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 297 women called Lauren were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Lauren | 25 | 0.045 | 1,667 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Lauren | 31 | 0.030 | 1,871 |
| Balears, Illes | Lauren | 19 | 0.030 | 1,847 |
| Palmas, Las | Lauren | 15 | 0.025 | 2,797 |
| Barcelona | Lauren | 61 | 0.020 | 2,238 |
| Málaga | Lauren | 15 | 0.016 | 2,524 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lauren against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.