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Larue vs Larwence

American parents have registered 5,520 Larues since 1880, against 394 Larwences. Larue is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Larue against Larwence, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Larue Larwence

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Larue has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1893 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1968, when Larue had 13 and Larwence had 9.

Side by side

  Larue Larwence
Total US births 5,520394
Most in one year 18526
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 1,700240
Median age today 7171
Peak year 19201955
Best rank 590th girls1,503rd boys
Rank in 2025 10,917thunranked
First recorded 18931927
Girls / boys 3,980 / 1,5400 / 394

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Larue and Larwence.