Lauro
The boy's name Lauro has been in the national records since 1912, with 2,180 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,857th. About 1,700 Lauros are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Lauro
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,180
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 2,087th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,857th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Lauros are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,180 babies given the name since 1912, about 1,700 are alive — 76 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 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 the name comes from
From the Italian surname, from a personal name derived from Latin laurus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lauros
- Achille Lauro (born 1990)Italian singer-songwriter
- Lauro Amadò (1912–1971)Swiss footballer
- Lauro Müller (1863–1926)Brazilian politician
- Lauro De Bosis (1901–1931)Italian poet
- Lauro Cavazos (1927–2022)American educator; George H. W. Bush administration cabinet member
- Lauro Rossi (1812–1885)Italian opera composer
People named Lauro with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lauro is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lauro is most concentrated in Texas (10.0×), California (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2000
The most popular boys’ names the year Lauro peaked:
Lauro elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Lauro | 300 | 396th |
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.
Lauro: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Lauro | 288 | 0.023% | 275th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Lauro | 8 | 0.012% | 88th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Lauro | 4 | 0.108% | 3rd |
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, Lauro is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.04% of children were given it – 37 of them.
Lauro by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 566th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Where Lauro lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 259 men called Lauro were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palencia | Lauro | 5 | 0.063 | 857 |
| Cantabria | Lauro | 14 | 0.049 | 989 |
| Rioja, La | Lauro | 7 | 0.043 | 1,216 |
| Burgos | Lauro | 6 | 0.033 | 1,386 |
| León | Lauro | 7 | 0.032 | 1,309 |
| Valladolid | Lauro | 8 | 0.031 | 1,379 |
Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 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
Lauro 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.