LAWRENCE  

Gender: M
Origin: Latin
Meaning: "from Laurentium"

Popularity in 2008: #427

Has survived from Roman times, when Laurentium was a city noted for its laurel trees. In the Top 50 from the 1890s through the 1950s and the Top 100 for decades longer, but now used less for babies than Landon or Lorenzo. Nickname Lauro perks it up.

Variations:
Lawrie, Loren, Laurits, Lon, Lary, Lorry, Lavrens, Lanty, Lavrans, Lorne, Lorn, Lorin, Laurentius, Larry, Lawrance, Larian, Lorrie, Larrance, Larien, Larenz, Lowrance, Lorentz, Larrence, Lonnie, Lorrenz, Loran, Lavrenti, Lawry, Lawron, Laris, Lorence, Laurence, Lorrence, Larrens, Law, Lonny, Lawerence, Laurie, Laren, Lanny, Larrey, Loreca, Lawrey, Laurentios, Lawren, Laurance, Lencho, Lorenzen, Laurenz, Laranz, Larance, Loritz

International Variations:
Lauritz, Lorenz (Danish) Laurens (Dutch) Lauri (Finnish) Laurent (French) Lorenz (German) Lenci, Lorant, Lornic (Hungarian) Lorcan, Lochlann, Labhras (Irish) Renzo (Italian) Lavrik, Larka, Labrentsis, Lavr, Labrencis, Larya, Lavro, Brencis (Latvian) Inek, Lorenz (Polish) Lorenco, Laudalino, Laurencho, Lourenco (Portuguese) Laurencio, Lorenzo (Spanish)

Lawrence is being discussed in our message boards:

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• Joel David or Jack David?
• Popular names you just don't 'get'.
• Build a Name Together
• Seniors from 1962 yearbook

Read Nameberry blog posts about Lawrence:

• CALIFORNIA DESERT NAMES
• U NAME IT: Utterly unusual, unique and underused 'U' names
• UNDERRATED NAMES, PART DEUX
• LITERARY SIB SETS--AS IN AMY, BETH, MEG & JO
• THE FOUR-GENERATION RULE