Laurence
106
Babies in 2024
-9%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 216
+7%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Laurence
Laurence peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (216 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 106 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Laurence reached its peak in 1997, when 216 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #161 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 106 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,392 boys have been officially registered with the name Laurence in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,129 boys were registered with the name, starting from 116 in 2014 and ending at 106 in 2024.