Lawana vs Lawrance

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Lawana Lawrance

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

Of the 106 years in which either name was published, Lawrance for 57 years and Lawana for 49 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.

• 1889–1921 Lawrance ahead
• 1927–1933 Lawana ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1936–1952 Lawrance ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1953–1989 Lawana ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1990–2018 Lawrance ahead

16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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.

Where each one is strongest

• Lawana Oklahoma (11.7×), Utah (4.4×), Georgia (4.2×)
• Lawrance California (4.2×), Michigan (3.3×), Illinois (1.8×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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