Lawrence

maleStatistical record

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

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

Lawrence: Recorded since 1952, its highest recorded position is #77, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
84times a registrar ranked it
74years from first to last
#77highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#152
1997	#154
1998	#165
1999	#180
2000	#213
2001	#239
2002	#272
2003	#262
2004	#283
2005	#288
2006	#291
2007	#361
2008	#339
2009	#385
2010	#355
2011	#369
2012	#411
2013	#375
2014	#395
2015	#373
2016	#404
2017	#386
2018	#486
2019	#443
2020	#551
2021	#509
2022	#515
2023	#514
2024	#576

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 Republic of Ireland in 43 of the 62 years from 1964 to 2025.

In 2023: #514 among boys in England and Wales, #770 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1952–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #77 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded1952–1957
Highest recorded position: #77 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 1952 (recorded 1952–1957).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Lawrence appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, with 43 ranked years and 369 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, from 1952.

Lawrence across 5 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.

Lawrence'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
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#119 (1964)	#101 (1967)	#829 (2025)	43 of 62	369 (1964–2025)	36 (1967)
England and Wales · Boys	#152 (1996)	#152 (1996)	#576 (2024)	29 of 29	3,403 (1996–2024)	226 (1996)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#77 (1952)	#77 (1952)	#98 (1957)	5 of 6	369 (1952–1957)	89 (1952)
New Zealand · Boys	#78 (1954)	#78 (1954)	#93 (1958)	4 of 5	226 (1954–1958)	71 (1954)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#277 (2000)	#263 (2003)	#263 (2003)	3 of 4	10 (2000–2003)	4 (2003)

Lawrence by decade in Republic of Ireland · 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 Lawrence in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960sbusiest	128	6 of 10	21
1970s	84	9 of 10	9
1980s	74	10 of 10	7
1990s	45	8 of 10	6
2000s	23	6 of 10	4
2010s	9	2 of 10	5
2020s	6	2 of 10	3

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Lawrence appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1952 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #77 in New South Wales, Australia in 1953.

Lawrence'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
2024	England and Wales	male	#576	66	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#514	76	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#515	76	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#509	77	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#551	67	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#443	92	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#486	82	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#386	117	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#404	106	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#373	117	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#395	103	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#375	108	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#411	97	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#369	109	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#355	117	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#385	101	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#339	114	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#361	101	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#291	122	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#288	112	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#283	111	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#262	117	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#272	102	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#239	121	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#213	151	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#180	185	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#165	205	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#154	225	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#152	226	High	Verified
1957	New South Wales, Australia	male	#98	66	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	male	#95	59	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	male	#85	71	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	male	#77	84	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	male	#77	89	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New Zealand	male	#93	60	High	Verified
1956	New Zealand	male	#96	48	High	Verified
1955	New Zealand	male	#97	47	High	Verified
1954	New Zealand	male	#78	71	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#263	4	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#281	3	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#542	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#527	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#390	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#409	3	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	4	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#337	4	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#234	9	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#301	4	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#299	4	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#302	4	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#263	5	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#193	11	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#232	6	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#215	7	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#249	5	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#247	6	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#250	5	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#274	4	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#209	9	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#223	8	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#191	12	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#202	12	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#212	9	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#208	10	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#241	6	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#251	6	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#227	8	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#200	11	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#177	15	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#200	10	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#197	9	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#146	16	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#112	28	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#101	36	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#150	12	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#119	18	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#119	18	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1952 and 2025, ranked in 67 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #77, first reached in 1952.

It held a top-100 place in 7 years, 7 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 226 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1954, and 48 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Lawan · #2954, 12y
Lawi · #1701, 15y
Lawrie · #727, 19y
Lawson · #234, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Gina · #76, 71y
Kelvin · #78, 66y
Dorothy · #75, 65y
Una · #74, 63y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Allen · #76, 68y
Kelvin · #78, 66y
Mariusz · #76, 48y
Mikael · #78, 67y

Lawrence was ranked #77 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 1952. 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.

Lawrence and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lawrence without appearing here.

Lawrence moved ahead of

Tom Compare
In 2020 they stood at #551 and #535 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #509 and #676.
Scott Compare
In 2016 they stood at #404 and #397 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #386 and #501.
Ciaran Compare
In 2012 they stood at #411 and #382 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #375 and #489.
Calum Compare
In 2011 they stood at #369 and #361 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #411 and #507.

Moved ahead of Lawrence

Mason Compare
In 2006 they stood at #390 and #439 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2007 that had become #527 and #241.
Lachlan Compare
In 2019 they stood at #443 and #454 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #551 and #347.
Jeremy Compare
In 2006 they stood at #390 and #439 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2007 that had become #527 and #326.
Hunter Compare
In 2011 they stood at #369 and #473 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #411 and #238.

Moved the opposite way to Lawrence

Alexander Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Lawrence went from #119 to #829 while Alexander went from #116 to #55.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Lawrence went from #119 to #829 while Benjamin went from #139 to #83.
Conor Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Lawrence went from #119 to #829 while Conor went from #56 to #16.
Liam Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Lawrence went from #119 to #829 while Liam went from #54 to #7.

Moved the same way as Lawrence

Adrian Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Lawrence went from #119 to #829 and Adrian from #65 to #348.
Alfred Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Lawrence went from #119 to #829 and Alfred from #134 to #286.
Denis Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Lawrence went from #119 to #829 and Denis from #21 to #232.
Edward Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Lawrence went from #119 to #829 and Edward from #18 to #125.

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 5 regions, from 1952 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #77 in New South Wales, Australia in 1953. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lawrence

Lawrence at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lawrence across 5 official records

Lawrence by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Lawrence appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Names published alongside Lawrence

Lawrence and the names beside it

Lawrence moved ahead of

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Lawrence at a glance

Lawrence across 5 official records

Lawrence by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Lawrence appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Lawrence

Lawrence and the names beside it

Lawrence moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lawrence

Moved the opposite way to Lawrence

Moved the same way as Lawrence