Lawson
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Lawson
Appealing way, à la Dawson, to honor an ancestral Lawrence. Lawson is also an English pop rock band. Lawson has history or use that dates far back, but it fell off of the charts in 1950. The name resurfaced in 2001 and has been climbing since. Lawson has that surname feel and -son suffix that parents are loving in recent years.
Lawson for girls#3053 US
Appealing way, à la Dawson, to honor an ancestral Lawrence, given to a couple dozen baby girls per year in the US. Lawson is also an English pop rock band.
Pronounced LAW-sun.
As of October 2026, Lawson ranked #381 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #357 in 2020.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #488 | 576 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #437 | 699 | #4,801 | 29 |
| 2016 | #434 | 716 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #434 | 713 | #4,184 | 35 |
| 2018 | #380 | 853 | #4,287 | 33 |
| 2019 | #368 | 870 | #4,843 | 28 |
| 2020 | #357 | 870 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #364 | 896 | #4,288 | 33 |
| 2022 | #410 | 785 | #4,160 | 35 |
| 2023 | #413 | 774 | #4,317 | 33 |
| 2024 | #415 | 774 | #4,950 | 27 |
| 2025 | #381 | 830 | #3,053 | 54 |
World rankings
Lawson for boys
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- Gregory "Lawson" CraddockBoy
American cyclist
- Lawson ButtBoy
English actor
- Lawson Paterson "Red" RamageBoy
U.S. Navy admiral
- Lawson AschenbachBoy
American cyclist
- Lawson RobinsonBoy
Antiguan footballer
- Lawson Brent Nail (b. 2015)Boy
daughter of singer David Nail; twin of sister Lillian Catherine Nail
- Lawson Jack McCormack (b. 2015)Boy
son of footballer Ross McCormack
- Lawson Keith Schroeder (b. 2016)Boy
son of reality TV personalities Jordan Lloyd and Jeff Schroeder
- William Lawson BatesBoy
4th child (2nd son) of reality TV's Bates family
Lawson in pop culture
- LawsonBoy
character from 2004 movie "A Love Song for Bobby Long"
- Henry and Evan LawsonBoy
characters on TV's "Royal Pains"
- LawsonBoy
English rock band