Lawson

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Lawson is ranked 415th among boys in 2024 (774 births). Its best rank was 357th, in 2020.

Rank in 2024: #415down 2 from 2023
Births in 2024: 7740.05% of boys
Peak year: 2021896 births
Best rank: #357in 2020
Since 1880: 18,247people given the name

Babies named Lawson, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

17,698 boys have been named Lawson in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 896 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 35%. It has spent 93 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 549 girls have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Lawson
1880s	161
1890s	136
1900s	170
1910s	533
1920s	691
1930s	495
1940s	521
1950s	416
1960s	296
1970s	219
1980s	277
1990s	697
2000s	2,713
2010s	6,274
2020s	4,099

In 2021, its biggest year

Lawson was the 364th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Lawson

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.