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Lawerance vs Lawerence

American parents have registered 4,818 Lawerences since 1880, against 995 Lawerances. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lawerance against Lawerence, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lawerance 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 119 years in which either name was published, Lawerence for 118 years and Lawerance for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Lawerance Lawerence
Total US births 9954,818
Most in one year 35125
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 4802,000
Median age today 6968
Peak year 19491949
Best rank 1,205th boys607th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19151881
Girls / boys 0 / 9950 / 4,818

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: Lawerance and Lawerence.