as a First Name
Apparently modelled on Laurence, this was first used, or at any rate first brought to public attention, by the film actress Lauren Bacall (b. 1924 as Betty Jean Perske), famous for her partnership with Humphrey Bogart. They appeared together in several films, notably To Have and Have Not (1943) and The Big Sleep (1946). The name was extremely popular throughout the 1990s. See also Loren.
| 189th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 320,181
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 445,681
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- New Jersey
- has the most people named Lauren per capita
- 1989
- marked the height of its popularity
99.70%
0.30%
2%
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55+
14%
30-54
30-54
46%
13-29
13-29
38%
0-12
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