Laurin
About 2,078 American babies have been named Laurin since 1910, most of them around 1990. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,700 Laurins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Laurin
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Laurin crossed from boys to girls in 1960, and has stayed there for 26 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 27 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
- 2,078
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 1,892nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1910
- Girls / boys
- 1,597 / 481
How old the living Laurins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,078 babies given the name since 1910, about 1,700 are alive — 82 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 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.
Where Laurin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Laurin is most concentrated in North Carolina (11.4×), Texas (3.6×), California (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular girls’ names the year Laurin peaked:
Laurin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Laurin | 3,030 | 33rd |
| Italy boys | Laurin | 371 | — |
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.
Laurin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Laurin | 2,978 | 0.239% | 23rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Laurin | 11 | 0.003% | 422nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Laurin | 6 | 0.009% | 126th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Laurin | 35 | 0.941% | 1st |
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, Laurin is most concentrated in Graubünden, where 0.65% of children were given it – 245 of them.
Laurin by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 36 | 277th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Laurin 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 boys | Laurin | 8 | 14 |
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
Laurin 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.