# Lawson (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lawson/  
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 | 19,138 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 18,533 / 605 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,302, 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 | 11 | 10,114 |
| 2012 | 17 | 7,317 |
| 2013 | 12 | 9,356 |
| 2014 | 25 | 5,388 |
| 2015 | 29 | 4,802 |
| 2016 | 27 | 5,073 |
| 2017 | 35 | 4,189 |
| 2018 | 33 | 4,288 |
| 2019 | 28 | 4,846 |
| 2020 | 22 | 5,583 |
| 2021 | 33 | 4,289 |
| 2022 | 35 | 4,164 |
| 2023 | 34 | 4,242 |
| 2024 | 28 | 4,839 |
| 2025 | 54 | 3,053 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 432 | 582 |
| 2012 | 492 | 533 |
| 2013 | 523 | 511 |
| 2014 | 576 | 488 |
| 2015 | 699 | 437 |
| 2016 | 716 | 434 |
| 2017 | 713 | 434 |
| 2018 | 853 | 380 |
| 2019 | 870 | 368 |
| 2020 | 871 | 357 |
| 2021 | 896 | 364 |
| 2022 | 786 | 410 |
| 2023 | 775 | 413 |
| 2024 | 775 | 415 |
| 2025 | 830 | 381 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 45 | 701 |
| 2012 | 81 | 476 |
| 2013 | 88 | 450 |
| 2014 | 99 | 409 |
| 2015 | 99 | 416 |
| 2016 | 85 | 477 |
| 2017 | 74 | 526 |
| 2018 | 87 | 465 |
| 2019 | 68 | 552 |
| 2020 | 44 | 739 |
| 2021 | 60 | 618 |
| 2022 | 53 | 656 |
| 2023 | 29 | 1,018 |
| 2024 | 37 | 857 |
| 2025 | 29 | 1,035 |

## People named Lawson

- Lawson Craddock, American road cyclist
- Lawson Crouse, Canadian ice hockey player
- Lawson Robertson, American athlete and coach (1883–1951)
- Robert Lawson Vaught, American mathematician (1926–2002)
- Lawson Butt, British actor and film director (1883–1956)
- John Lawson Stoddard, American writer (1850–1931)
- Lawson Tait, British gynaecologist and antivivisectionist (1845–1899)
- Horace Lawson Hunley, Confederate marine engineer during the American Civil War (1823-1863)
- Joseph Lawson Howze, American Catholic bishop (1923-2019)

## 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.