Girls' name · peaked in 1999

Lauryn name popularity since 1925

22,168 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Lauryn. Half of them were born in 2004 or earlier, so the typical Lauryn is about 22 years old in 2026. Lauryn peaked in 1999 as the #167 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 22,168; Named Lauryn, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1999; #167 for girls that year
Typical age: About 22; Median birth year 2004
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #1,455 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.9% girls; 22,156 girls · 12 boys
Most popular in: Georgia; 2.09× its national share

Peak year is the year Lauryn made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Lauryn births per year, 1925–2025

1999 was the biggest year for Lauryn both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1994 and 1999, Lauryn became 6.3× more common, from 1 in 5,970 baby girls to 1 in 942.
Steepest fall: Between 2020 and 2025, its share of baby girls fell by 62%, from 1 in 4,160 to 1 in 10,900.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Lauryn's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Lauryn.

Decade by decade

Babies named Lauryn in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	0	0	–
1930s	0	0	Under 5
1940s	0	0	Under 5
1950s	19	0	Under 5
1960s	85	0	#3,844
1970s	138	0	#6,217
1980s	1,099	0	#1,452
1990s	4,984	0	#818
2000s	8,658	12	#406
2010s	5,594	0	#508
2020–25	1,579	0	#1,455

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

60.6% of babies named Lauryn from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Z years (1997–2012). The full split by generation:

Where Lauryn is most popular

The index compares Lauryn's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Lauryn.

State	Index	Babies
Georgia	2.09×	1,174
South Carolina	1.65×	471
Alabama	1.55×	558
Florida	1.55×	1,141
Mississippi	1.51×	373

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Lauryn and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Lauryn (this page)	22,156	1999
Lauren	475,571	1989
Laurin	1,597	1990
Lauran	1,468	1989

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Lauryn's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Lauryn.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Lauryn (1999).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data