# Laurens (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/laurens/  
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 | 150 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 150 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 10, 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 7 | 3,240 |
| 1952 | 8 | 2,992 |
| 1953 | 8 | 3,048 |
| 1954 | 5 | 4,126 |
| 1955 | 8 | 3,102 |
| 1956 | 5 | 4,232 |
| 1960 | 5 | 4,361 |
| 1962 | 6 | 3,853 |
| 1966 | 5 | 4,280 |
| 1975 | 5 | 5,955 |
| 1976 | 5 | 6,105 |
| 1981 | 7 | 5,247 |
| 1991 | 5 | 9,025 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12,447 |
| 2005 | 6 | 10,923 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 2,357 |
| 1999 | 3 | 2,943 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |

## People named Laurens

- Laurens Hammond, American inventor (1895–1973)
- Laurens De Plus, Belgian cyclist
- Laurens ten Dam, Dutch road racing cyclist
- Laurens De Bock, Belgian association football player
- Laurens Jansz Coster, Dutch purported inventor of printing press (1405-1484)
- Laurens Vanthoor, Belgian racing driver
- Laurens De Vreese, Belgian road racing cyclist
- Laurens Reael, Dutch admiral (1583-1637)
- Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, Dutch former politician (born 1937)
- Laurens Sweeck, Belgian bicycle racer
- Laurens van Ravens, Dutch association football referee (1922-2018)
- Laurens Theodorus Gronovius, Dutch naturalist (1730–1777)

## 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.