Larry
Larry is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 204 births. Its best rank was 10th, in 1947, 1949.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2040.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 194734,945 births
- Best rank
- #10first in 1947
- Since 1880
- 810,934people given the name
The story in the numbers
807,374 boys have been named Larry in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 34,945 births — 1.9% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 204 births in 2024, against 34,945 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1940s alone account for 32%. It has spent 143 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 55 of them in the top 100 and 2 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 3,560 girls have also been given it, 0.44% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Larry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 150 | |
| 1890s | 299 | |
| 1900s | 634 | |
| 1910s | 2,576 | |
| 1920s | 7,219 | |
| 1930s | 65,247 | |
| 1940s | 255,907 | |
| 1950s | 245,690 | |
| 1960s | 108,580 | |
| 1970s | 58,140 | |
| 1980s | 31,278 | |
| 1990s | 15,944 | |
| 2000s | 9,139 | |
| 2010s | 5,343 | |
| 2020s | 1,228 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Larry was the 10th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Larry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lannypeak 1949
- Gareypeak 1952
- Dennispeak 1952
- Larypeak 1946
- Rodgerpeak 1949
- Ronaldpeak 1947
- Garypeak 1952
- Danniepeak 1953
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.