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How popular is “Lawrence” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lawrence” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lawrence” 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 “Lawrence” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lawrence” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lawrence” 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
1880 257 0.001275536 257 -100%
1881 244 0.001266296 244 -100%
1882 287 0.001295518 287 -100%
1883 282 0.001299863 282 -100%
1884 262 0.001076148 262 -100%
1885 288 0.001195745 288 -100%
1886 331 0.001296433 331 -100%
1887 283 0.001143934 283 -100%
1888 343 0.001145342 343 -100%
1889 342 0.001183612 342 -100%
1890 378 0.001254143 6 372 -97%
1891 389 0.001356947 389 -100%
1892 468 0.00139963 468 -100%
1893 395 0.001214551 395 -100%
1894 430 0.001269598 430 -100%
1895 509 0.00145006 509 -100%
1896 506 0.001415448 7 499 -97%
1897 512 0.001475687 7 505 -97%
1898 533 0.001397281 533 -100%
1899 502 0.001479805 5 497 -98%
1900 659 0.001463605 659 -100%
1901 535 0.001547083 535 -100%
1902 604 0.001561801 6 598 -98%
1903 546 0.001432319 10 536 -96%
1904 667 0.001653097 5 662 -99%
1905 677 0.001596992 8 669 -98%
1906 723 0.001687474 6 717 -98%
1907 801 0.001721137 801 -100%
1908 821 0.001680143 6 815 -99%
1909 862 0.001686149 8 854 -98%
1910 1017 0.001721654 8 1009 -98%
1911 1231 0.001910666 10 1221 -98%
1912 2476 0.002505916 9 2467 -99%
1913 2870 0.002523942 17 2853 -99%
1914 3723 0.002628599 20 3703 -99%
1915 4716 0.002573637 28 4688 -99%
1916 4758 0.002459656 16 4742 -99%
1917 5116 0.002549396 22 5094 -99%
1918 5405 0.002489509 33 5372 -99%
1919 5231 0.002478859 26 5205 -99%
1920 5749 0.002540834 22 5727 -99%
1921 6009 0.002573993 32 5977 -99%
1922 5808 0.00253718 22 5786 -99%
1923 5940 0.002579826 27 5913 -99%
1924 5799 0.002434907 24 5775 -99%
1925 5659 0.002425318 26 5633 -99%
1926 5621 0.002448272 39 5582 -99%
1927 5616 0.00242136 44 5572 -98%
1928 5639 0.002494098 43 5596 -98%
1929 5336 0.002434128 30 5306 -99%
1930 5670 0.002550277 31 5639 -99%
1931 5394 0.002563216 30 5364 -99%
1932 5325 0.002522154 30 5295 -99%
1933 4940 0.002470683 29 4911 -99%
1934 5349 0.002575577 25 5324 -99%
1935 5379 0.002573807 28 5351 -99%
1936 5363 0.002581371 22 5341 -99%
1937 5529 0.002594958 24 5505 -99%
1938 5899 0.002666126 25 5874 -99%
1939 5911 0.002682621 29 5882 -99%
1940 6197 0.002691206 24 6173 -99%
1941 6681 0.002742132 29 6652 -99%
1942 7672 0.002808386 33 7639 -99%
1943 7605 0.002694363 22 7583 -99%
1944 7161 0.002662004 32 7129 -99%
1945 7186 0.002708724 23 7163 -99%
1946 8538 0.002672044 21 8517 -100%
1947 9605 0.002666336 23 9582 -100%
1948 9793 0.002836481 25 9768 -99%
1949 10277 0.002949113 24 10253 -100%
1950 10197 0.002910636 23 10174 -100%
1951 10287 0.002792543 22 10265 -100%
1952 10336 0.002721429 34 10302 -99%
1953 9883 0.002564586 27 9856 -99%
1954 9631 0.002419419 26 9605 -99%
1955 9152 0.002279407 24 9128 -99%
1956 8927 0.002165152 29 8898 -99%
1957 8771 0.002087268 29 8742 -99%
1958 7567 0.001830473 28 7539 -99%
1959 6634 0.001595482 34 6600 -99%
1960 6405 0.001541956 27 6378 -99%
1961 6123 0.001478164 27 6096 -99%
1962 5649 0.001399871 29 5620 -99%
1963 5730 0.001447628 24 5706 -99%
1964 5476 0.001408579 23 5453 -99%
1965 4985 0.001375002 23 4962 -99%
1966 4672 0.001344207 29 4643 -99%
1967 4373 0.00128811 31 4342 -99%
1968 4114 0.001217732 17 4097 -99%
1969 4073 0.001171977 29 4044 -99%
1970 3854 0.001068622 30 3824 -98%
1971 3549 0.001033984 26 3523 -99%
1972 2846 0.000905506 23 2823 -98%
1973 2549 0.000844911 25 2524 -98%
1974 2564 0.000843421 21 2543 -98%
1975 2388 0.000790887 24 2364 -98%
1976 2271 0.000748443 21 2250 -98%
1977 2342 0.000737291 31 2311 -97%
1978 2272 0.000715845 26 2246 -98%
1979 2276 0.0006841 21 2255 -98%
1980 2192 0.000636376 19 2173 -98%
1981 2215 0.000640289 21 2194 -98%
1982 2152 0.000613462 17 2135 -98%
1983 2047 0.000591048 19 2028 -98%
1984 1883 0.000539734 15 1868 -98%
1985 1955 0.000547756 14 1941 -99%
1986 1813 0.000509688 23 1790 -97%
1987 1919 0.000532226 21 1898 -98%
1988 1875 0.000507437 14 1861 -99%
1989 1767 0.000459624 14 1753 -98%
1990 1791 0.000453133 11 1780 -99%
1991 1749 0.000449007 16 1733 -98%
1992 1623 0.000422516 7 1616 -99%
1993 1551 0.000411375 1551 -100%
1994 1274 0.000342689 6 1268 -99%
1995 1150 0.000314023 1150 -100%
1996 1123 0.000307908 7 1116 -99%
1997 983 0.000271116 983 -100%
1998 1040 0.000282746 1040 -100%
1999 918 0.00024852 918 -100%
2000 889 0.000235191 889 -100%
2001 811 0.000216649 811 -100%
2002 794 0.000212397 794 -100%
2003 817 0.000214869 817 -100%
2004 768 0.000200999 768 -100%
2005 733 0.000190645 8 725 -98%
2006 728 0.000184015 728 -100%
2007 771 0.000192862 771 -100%
2008 676 0.000171981 676 -100%
2009 635 0.000166223 635 -100%
2010 583 0.000157749 583 -100%
2011 594 0.000162393 594 -100%
2012 601 0.000164326 601 -100%
2013 585 0.000160464 585 -100%
2014 645 0.000174024 6 639 -98%
2015 582 0.000157259 582 -100%
2016 614 0.000167362 614 -100%
2017 592 0.000165539 5 587 -98%
2018 579 0.000164681 579 -100%
2019 536 0.000154425 6 530 -98%
2020 508 0.00015207 10 498 -96%
2021 493 0.000145516 9 484 -96%
2022 546 0.000161389 5 541 -98%
2023 533 0.000160969 12 521 -95%
2024 607 0.000182364 11 596 -96%

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