Lawson
Lawson reached its high-water mark in 2021 at number 364, and has been recorded 19,138 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 381st. About 16,000 Lawsons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lawson boys named Lawson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19,138
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 364th
- Rank in 2025
- 381st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 605 / 18,533
How old the living Lawsons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 19,138 babies given the name since 1880, about 16,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 620 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Lawsons
- Lawson Crouse (born 1997)Canadian ice hockey player
- Lawson Craddock (born 1992)American road cyclist
- Lawson Robertson (1883–1951)American athlete and coach
People named Lawson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lawson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lawson is most concentrated in Georgia (3.1×), Arkansas (3.0×), Alabama (3.0×), North Carolina (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Lawson peaked:
Lawson elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Lawson | 1,302 | 416th |
| Scotland boys | Lawson | 179 | 255th |
| France boys | Lawson | 110 | 2,673rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Lawson | 33 | 234th |
| Ireland boys | Lawson | 11 | 646th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Lawson against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.