Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Lauren” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lauren” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lauren” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Lauren” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Lauren” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Lauren” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Lauren” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lauren” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 -100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 -100%
1910 12 0.000020315 12 -100%
1911 12 0.000018626 12 -100%
1912 19 0.00001923 19 -100%
1913 28 0.000024624 28 -100%
1914 42 0.000029654 42 -100%
1915 44 0.000024012 44 -100%
1916 43 0.000022229 43 -100%
1917 47 0.000023421 47 -100%
1918 69 0.000031781 69 -100%
1919 67 0.00003175 67 -100%
1920 67 0.000029611 67 -100%
1921 73 0.00003127 73 -100%
1922 63 0.000027521 63 -100%
1923 51 0.00002215 51 -100%
1924 73 0.000030652 6 67 -84%
1925 67 0.000028715 67 -100%
1926 55 0.000023956 55 -100%
1927 67 0.000028887 67 -100%
1928 64 0.000028307 64 -100%
1929 75 0.000034213 75 -100%
1930 56 0.000025188 56 -100%
1931 76 0.000036115 76 -100%
1932 56 0.000026524 56 -100%
1933 57 0.000028508 5 52 -82%
1934 69 0.000033224 69 -100%
1935 66 0.00003158 6 60 -82%
1936 58 0.000027917 58 -100%
1937 87 0.000040832 87 -100%
1938 80 0.000036157 80 -100%
1939 82 0.000037215 5 77 -88%
1940 73 0.000031702 9 64 -75%
1941 86 0.000035298 9 77 -79%
1942 78 0.000028552 17 61 -56%
1943 101 0.000035783 15 86 -70%
1944 111 0.000041263 46 65 -17%
1945 443 0.000166986 381 62 72%
1946 495 0.000154915 415 80 68%
1947 510 0.000141575 419 91 64%
1948 494 0.000143084 422 72 71%
1949 523 0.000150081 447 76 71%
1950 499 0.000142435 425 74 70%
1951 503 0.000136546 417 86 66%
1952 604 0.000159031 515 89 71%
1953 651 0.000168931 586 65 80%
1954 808 0.000202979 735 73 82%
1955 924 0.000230132 856 68 85%
1956 997 0.000241812 934 63 87%
1957 1367 0.00032531 1306 61 91%
1958 1421 0.000343743 1346 75 89%
1959 1410 0.000339106 1351 59 92%
1960 1395 0.000335836 1336 59 92%
1961 1309 0.000316008 1258 51 92%
1962 1175 0.000291175 1122 53 91%
1963 1319 0.000333232 1258 61 91%
1964 1420 0.000365263 1376 44 94%
1965 1356 0.000374023 1302 54 92%
1966 1224 0.000352164 1186 38 94%
1967 1222 0.000359952 1187 35 94%
1968 1180 0.000349276 1139 41 93%
1969 1355 0.000389892 1302 53 92%
1970 1350 0.000374323 1308 42 94%
1971 1166 0.000339708 1121 45 92%
1972 1037 0.00032994 1007 30 94%
1973 1128 0.000373895 1097 31 95%
1974 1424 0.000468421 1394 30 96%
1975 1877 0.000621648 1845 32 97%
1976 2254 0.00074284 2217 37 97%
1977 2582 0.000812846 2549 33 97%
1978 3719 0.001171756 3670 49 97%
1979 5676 0.001706042 5625 51 98%
1980 7534 0.002187251 7477 57 98%
1981 8890 0.002569828 8813 77 98%
1982 11666 0.003325578 11591 75 99%
1983 13043 0.003766019 12944 99 98%
1984 14570 0.004176275 14475 95 99%
1985 15882 0.004449849 15768 114 99%
1986 16764 0.004712857 16683 81 99%
1987 16817 0.004664116 16708 109 99%
1988 19737 0.00534148 19638 99 99%
1989 21199 0.005514187 21065 134 99%
1990 20601 0.005212173 20507 94 99%
1991 18475 0.004742938 18411 64 99%
1992 17260 0.004493302 17216 44 99%
1993 16227 0.004303926 16194 33 100%
1994 15198 0.004088063 15158 40 99%
1995 13486 0.003682531 13444 42 99%
1996 12630 0.003462935 12594 36 99%
1997 13285 0.003664071 13248 37 99%
1998 12933 0.003516115 12907 26 100%
1999 13948 0.003775989 13911 37 99%
2000 14205 0.003758032 14176 29 100%
2001 12811 0.003422299 12782 29 100%
2002 12360 0.003306324 12326 34 99%
2003 11074 0.002912433 11051 23 100%
2004 10030 0.00262502 9983 47 99%
2005 9279 0.002413361 9248 31 99%
2006 8515 0.002152324 8498 17 100%
2007 7454 0.00186458 7436 18 100%
2008 6466 0.001645014 6454 12 100%
2009 5210 0.001363812 5203 7 100%
2010 4475 0.001210854 4466 9 100%
2011 4109 0.001123355 4100 9 100%
2012 3674 0.001004548 3660 14 99%
2013 3360 0.000921642 3349 11 99%
2014 3103 0.000837206 3096 7 100%
2015 2704 0.000730631 2697 7 99%
2016 2333 0.00063592 2325 8 99%
2017 1997 0.000558415 1992 5 99%
2018 1705 0.00048494 1705 100%
2019 1520 0.000437923 1513 7 99%
2020 1278 0.000382569 1278 100%
2021 978 0.00028867 969 9 98%
2022 994 0.00029381 987 7 99%
2023 900 0.000271805 900 100%
2024 884 0.000265585 879 5 99%

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