Lauren
Lauren is ranked 351st among girls in 2024 (879 births). Its best rank was 9th, in 1989.
- Rank in 2024
- #351down 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8790.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 198921,065 births
- Best rank
- #9in 1989
- Since 1924
- 480,615people given the name
The story in the numbers
474,797 girls have been named Lauren in the United States since 1924, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 21,065 births — 1.1% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 879 births in 2024, against 21,065 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 1990s alone account for 32%. It has spent 80 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 37 of them in the top 100 and 2 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 5,818 boys have also been given it, 1.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lauren | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | |
| 1930s | 16 | |
| 1940s | 2,180 | |
| 1950s | 8,471 | |
| 1960s | 12,466 | |
| 1970s | 21,833 | |
| 1980s | 145,162 | |
| 1990s | 153,590 | |
| 2000s | 97,157 | |
| 2010s | 28,903 | |
| 2020s | 5,013 |
In 1989, its biggest year
Lauren was the 9th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1989 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Lauren
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gennapeak 1986
- Kassiepeak 1987
- Lyndsiepeak 1989
- Desireapeak 1990
- Jenaepeak 1991
- Kateypeak 1992
- Maeganpeak 1991
- Laceepeak 1991
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.