# Laurel (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/laurel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 48,973 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,860 / 47,113 (96% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 596, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 282 | 923 |
| 2012 | 262 | 970 |
| 2013 | 297 | 870 |
| 2014 | 340 | 816 |
| 2015 | 369 | 768 |
| 2016 | 459 | 643 |
| 2017 | 504 | 598 |
| 2018 | 484 | 622 |
| 2019 | 388 | 728 |
| 2020 | 415 | 686 |
| 2021 | 465 | 638 |
| 2022 | 415 | 711 |
| 2023 | 394 | 716 |
| 2024 | 387 | 729 |
| 2025 | 372 | 734 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 6 | 4,697 |
| 1974 | 10 | 3,461 |
| 1976 | 8 | 4,236 |
| 1977 | 5 | 6,418 |
| 1979 | 9 | 4,257 |
| 1980 | 11 | 3,752 |
| 1981 | 12 | 3,527 |
| 1982 | 6 | 6,077 |
| 1983 | 7 | 5,241 |
| 1984 | 6 | 6,032 |
| 1985 | 8 | 4,972 |
| 1986 | 7 | 5,696 |
| 1992 | 5 | 9,255 |
| 1993 | 9 | 6,033 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,711 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 2,275 |
| 2012 | 16 | 1,809 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,360 |
| 2014 | 24 | 1,341 |
| 2015 | 23 | 1,405 |
| 2016 | 22 | 1,472 |
| 2017 | 27 | 1,258 |
| 2018 | 20 | 1,526 |
| 2019 | 25 | 1,292 |
| 2020 | 20 | 1,507 |
| 2021 | 16 | 1,785 |
| 2022 | 19 | 1,556 |
| 2023 | 24 | 1,325 |
| 2024 | 25 | 1,302 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,719 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |

## People named Laurel

- Laurel Holloman, American painter and actress
- Laurel Aitken, Cuban singer (1927–2005)
- Laurel Goodwin, American actress
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, American historian
- Laurel Halo, American musician, record producer & DJ
- Laurel Hester, American activist and police officer (1956-2006)
- Laurel Korholz, American rower and rowing coach
- Laurel M. Lee, American judge and politician
- Laurel Rose Willson, Disgraced American writer (1941–2002)
- Robert Crippen, American astronaut
- Wendy Freedman, Canadian-American astronomer
- Chelsea Green, Canadian professional wrestler

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.