Laurance

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Laurance: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

2registrars recorded it
6times a registrar ranked it
37years from first to last
#258highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2011

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2859
2001	#3134
2004	#3651
2011	#4647

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 4 of the 15 years from 1997 to 2011.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1975–2011 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #321 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1975–1983
Highest recorded position: #258 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1983 (recorded 1975–1983).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2011
Most recently recorded at #4647 among boys in England and Wales, in 2011.
England and Wales · Boys

Laurance appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 4 ranked years and 12 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1975.

Laurance across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Laurance's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#2859 (1997)	#4647 (2011)	4 of 15	12 (1997–2011)	3 (1997)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#321 (1975)	#258 (1983)	#258 (1983)	2 of 9	8 (1975–1983)	5 (1983)

Laurance by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Laurance in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	6	2 of 10	3
2010s	3	1 of 10	3

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1975 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #258 in Republic of Ireland in 1983.

Laurance's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#258	5	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Laurance is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Laurance, between 1975 and 2011, in 6 of those 37 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1975–1983	2	#258 in 1983
England and Wales	1997–2011	4	#2859 in 1997

Its high point came 14 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1983) than in England and Wales (1997).

No registrar recorded it for 13 years after 1983; it appears again in 1997.

Laurance was ranked #258 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1983. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alfred#258
Ambrose#258
Arron#258
Billy#258
Aengus#282
Alastair#282
Aron#282
Benedict#282

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1975 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #258 in Republic of Ireland in 1983. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Laurance

Laurance at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Laurance across 2 official records

Laurance by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Laurance is officially recorded

Names published alongside Laurance

Laurance at a glance

Laurance across 2 official records

Laurance by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Names published alongside Laurance