Lawanda vs Lawerence

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Lawanda Lawerence

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 121 years in which either name was published, Lawerence for 66 years and Lawanda for 55 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

• 1881–1929 Lawerence ahead
• 1930–1932 Lawanda ahead
• 1935–1951 Lawerence ahead
• 1952–1998 Lawanda ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1999–2001 Lawerence ahead
• 2002–2004 Lawanda ahead
• 2005–2015 Lawerence ahead, apart from one short spell

5 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Lawerences alive today are over 68; half the Lawandas are over 52. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Lawanda Mississippi (5.0×), Oklahoma (3.6×), the District of Columbia (3.4×)
• Lawerence Louisiana (3.6×), Michigan (3.3×), Illinois (2.7×)

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

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