Lawrence Forename
806th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,073,043 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Dominica
Lawrence Forename Definition:
A male name. Latin Laurentius ‘of Laurentium’, the name of a city, probably ultimately derived from laurus ‘a bay tree’. St Laurence the Deacon, martyred in Rome in 258, was a favourite saint in the Middle Ages, and there are 237 churches dedicated to him in England.
Read More About This ForenameLawrence Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 427,206 | 1:849 | 176 |
| Uganda | 99% | 114,272 | 1:358 | 70 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 110,880 | 1:1,601 | 297 |
| Ghana | 100% | 56,972 | 1:474 | 109 |
| Kenya | 100% | 46,793 | 1:990 | 203 |
| South Africa | 100% | 35,170 | 1:1,551 | 235 |
| Zambia | - | 31,648 | 1:501 | 103 |
| England | 100% | 30,699 | 1:1,811 | 321 |
| Canada | 100% | 25,764 | 1:1,286 | 294 |
| Malawi | 97% | 24,198 | 1:707 | 157 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 17,210 | 1:896 | 155 |
| Philippines | 96% | 15,999 | 1:6,626 | 1,033 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 12,123 | 1:1,783 | 354 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 10,383 | 1:683 | 165 |
| Sudan | 100% | 9,519 | 1:3,972 | 645 |
| Liberia | 99% | 8,442 | 1:523 | 103 |
| India | 99% | 7,959 | 1:152,642 | 16,875 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 7,345 | 1:7,187 | 1,061 |
| Mozambique | - | 6,240 | 1:4,366 | 862 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 6,100 | 1:4,992 | 570 |
| Papua New Guinea | 98% | 5,658 | 1:1,441 | 177 |
| Australia | - | 5,181 | 1:2,636 | 453 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 4,604 | 1:6,693 | 1,031 |
| Rwanda | - | 4,351 | 1:2,614 | 548 |
| Jamaica | - | 2,664 | 1:1,082 | 276 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 2,566 | 1:62,144 | 4,997 |
| Scotland | 100% | 2,560 | 1:2,090 | 301 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 2,361 | 1:8,809 | 1,353 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,761 | 1:2,576 | 460 |
| Wales | 100% | 1,588 | 1:1,949 | 361 |
| Botswana | 100% | 1,472 | 1:1,484 | 274 |
| Gambia | - | 1,384 | 1:1,392 | 243 |
| Singapore | 97% | 1,341 | 1:4,688 | 807 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 1,334 | 1:436 | 82 |
| Lebanon | 80% | 1,278 | 1:4,403 | 671 |
| Malta | - | 1,176 | 1:365 | 75 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 1,171 | 1:1,163 | 211 |
| Hong Kong | - | 1,075 | 1:7,212 | 666 |
| Fiji | - | 1,007 | 1:886 | 187 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,004 | 1:213,383 | 9,326 |
| Togo | - | 989 | 1:7,320 | 1,126 |
| Syria | - | 945 | 1:20,430 | 1,112 |
| China | - | 927 | 1:1,473,631 | 39,081 |
| Ireland | 100% | 818 | 1:5,677 | 527 |
| Kuwait | - | 817 | 1:4,633 | 610 |
| Guyana | 100% | 772 | 1:989 | 143 |
| Oman | - | 736 | 1:5,582 | 755 |
| Thailand | 100% | 735 | 1:95,328 | 8,185 |
| Israel | 64% | 726 | 1:11,574 | 1,380 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 661 | 1:15,781 | 1,607 |
| Indonesia | - | 655 | 1:393,838 | 31,848 |
| France | 91% | 638 | 1:104,185 | 2,261 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 596 | 1:28,359 | 2,389 |
| Iraq | 100% | 584 | 1:59,962 | 1,907 |
| Jordan | 95% | 581 | 1:15,192 | 951 |
| Namibia | - | 581 | 1:4,138 | 652 |
| Bahamas | - | 565 | 1:707 | 176 |
| Poland | 50% | 565 | 1:67,305 | 1,669 |
| Bahrain | - | 533 | 1:2,530 | 418 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 459 | 1:4,016 | 498 |
| Germany | 100% | 422 | 1:229,094 | 3,374 |
| Belgium | 100% | 396 | 1:29,015 | 1,859 |
| Gabon | 100% | 361 | 1:5,217 | 1,029 |
| Saint Lucia | 97% | 359 | 1:495 | 52 |
| Dominica | - | 324 | 1:233 | 51 |
| Qatar | 100% | 314 | 1:7,547 | 1,216 |
| Swaziland | - | 308 | 1:4,221 | 796 |
| Egypt | 100% | 304 | 1:302,306 | 9,724 |
| Samoa | - | 274 | 1:712 | 214 |
| Barbados | - | 264 | 1:1,098 | 253 |
| Chile | 75% | 249 | 1:70,712 | 2,125 |
| Lesotho | 99% | 234 | 1:8,718 | 1,271 |
| Taiwan | 65% | 217 | 1:109,538 | 12,556 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 208 | 1:528 | 80 |
| Guam | - | 195 | 1:824 | 170 |
| Belize | 100% | 185 | 1:1,915 | 433 |
| Grenada | 100% | 178 | 1:607 | 90 |
| DR Congo | 59% | 171 | 1:431,740 | 15,753 |
| Mexico | 96% | 171 | 1:725,991 | 6,844 |
| Sweden | 100% | 170 | 1:57,988 | 2,927 |
| Italy | 100% | 162 | 1:376,926 | 4,418 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 155 | 1:194,851 | 7,176 |
| Japan | - | 143 | 1:895,007 | 14,344 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 134 | 1:61,295 | 2,425 |
| Pakistan | 67% | 115 | 1:1,690,067 | 24,423 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 115 | 1:970 | 135 |
| Panama | 100% | 114 | 1:34,268 | 2,698 |
| Spain | 100% | 114 | 1:408,158 | 5,757 |
| Morocco | - | 109 | 1:315,125 | 6,796 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 102 | 1:157,926 | 2,730 |
| Suriname | - | 99 | 1:5,584 | 1,159 |
| Nicaragua | 97% | 96 | 1:62,691 | 2,722 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 93 | 1:1,069 | 203 |
| Haiti | 100% | 92 | 1:116,597 | 6,309 |
| Norway | 100% | 90 | 1:57,026 | 2,239 |
| Costa Rica | 98% | 89 | 1:53,572 | 2,298 |
| Portugal | - | 83 | 1:125,432 | 3,169 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 78 | 1:701 | 120 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 66 | 1:494,296 | 8,292 |
| Ecuador | - | 63 | 1:281,380 | 4,058 |
| Denmark | - | 61 | 1:92,615 | 2,753 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 60 | 1:119,200 | 8,726 |
| Jersey | - | 59 | 1:1,695 | 338 |
| Greece | 100% | 56 | 1:195,260 | 4,026 |
| Bermuda | - | 47 | 1:1,379 | 322 |
| South Korea | - | 46 | 1:120,531 | 5,736 |
| Palestine | 84% | 39 | 1:116,668 | 1,981 |
| Peru | 97% | 39 | 1:815,165 | 11,913 |
| Brunei | - | 38 | 1:11,041 | 790 |
| Macau | - | 34 | 1:17,888 | 344 |
| Guernsey | - | 31 | 1:2,043 | 330 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 31 | 1:114,526 | 2,019 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 30 | 1:2,043 | 460 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 26 | 1:33,503 | 1,694 |
| Angola | - | 25 | 1:1,078,664 | 2,481 |
| Aruba | - | 25 | 1:4,151 | 831 |
| Benin | 100% | 24 | 1:440,660 | 15,374 |
| Ivory Coast | 64% | 24 | 1:961,497 | 28,831 |
| Austria | 100% | 22 | 1:387,009 | 4,082 |
| French Polynesia | - | 22 | 1:12,632 | 1,507 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 22 | 1:25,639 | 1,366 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 21 | 1:4,410,624 | 3,539 |
| Estonia | - | 20 | 1:65,769 | 3,350 |
| Russia | 100% | 20 | 1:7,211,685 | 30,794 |
| Yemen | - | 19 | 1:1,384,040 | 3,470 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 18 | 1:1,736 | 389 |
| Mongolia | - | 18 | 1:163,045 | 8,219 |
| Honduras | 100% | 17 | 1:518,675 | 7,750 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 17 | 1:15,892 | 1,309 |
| Ethiopia | - | 16 | 1:6,097,508 | 12,067 |
| Finland | 100% | 16 | 1:342,699 | 4,640 |
| Iran | 100% | 16 | 1:4,906,054 | 19,171 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 16 | 1:3,202 | 474 |
| Argentina | 100% | 15 | 1:2,851,550 | 9,163 |
| Gibraltar | - | 14 | 1:2,438 | 470 |
| Monaco | 100% | 13 | 1:2,959 | 566 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 12 | 1:1,105 | 185 |
| Curaçao | - | 10 | 1:15,580 | 668 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 10 | 1:5,486 | 913 |
| American Samoa | - | 9 | 1:6,205 | 1,322 |
| Libya | - | 9 | 1:691,257 | 1,282 |
| Madagascar | - | 9 | 1:2,625,490 | 3,077 |
| Myanmar | - | 9 | 1:5,772,030 | 1,432 |
| Saint Martin | - | 9 | 1:3,972 | 74 |
| Tonga | - | 9 | 1:11,937 | 236 |
| Uruguay | - | 9 | 1:380,849 | 5,148 |
| Vanuatu | - | 9 | 1:29,088 | 709 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 8 | 1:1,205,368 | 16,287 |
| Croatia | 100% | 8 | 1:527,134 | 5,786 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 8 | 1:4,338 | 950 |
| El Salvador | - | 7 | 1:905,969 | 6,148 |
| Hungary | 100% | 7 | 1:1,398,824 | 3,444 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 7 | 1:2,535,264 | 17,782 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 6 | 1:3,063,245 | 50,518 |
| Cambodia | - | 6 | 1:2,712,222 | 28,071 |
| Georgia | - | 6 | 1:623,078 | 10,501 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 6 | 1:1,206,134 | 7,440 |
| Micronesia | - | 5 | 1:21,300 | 626 |
| Chad | 100% | 4 | 1:3,399,600 | 8,891 |
| Colombia | - | 4 | 1:11,944,732 | 44,648 |
| Czechia | 100% | 4 | 1:2,664,040 | 5,608 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| Mali | - | 4 | 1:4,244,439 | 5,329 |
| Montserrat | - | 4 | 1:1,219 | 202 |
| Nauru | 100% | 4 | 1:2,982 | 284 |
| Palau | - | 4 | 1:5,428 | 88 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Andorra | - | 3 | 1:27,629 | 798 |
| Bulgaria | - | 3 | 1:2,330,130 | 16,302 |
| Maldives | - | 3 | 1:144,634 | 3,056 |
| Senegal | 50% | 3 | 1:4,860,452 | 20,187 |
| Ukraine | - | 3 | 1:15,166,636 | 17,541 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Congo | 100% | 2 | 1:2,504,602 | 31,783 |
| Cook Islands | - | 2 | 1:9,076 | 1,075 |
| Cuba | - | 2 | 1:5,753,276 | 9,613 |
| Guinea | - | 2 | 1:5,929,324 | 6,648 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Nepal | - | 2 | 1:14,243,676 | 86,069 |
| Northern Cyprus | - | 2 | 1:159,066 | 2,607 |
| Turkey | - | 2 | 1:38,900,854 | 64,839 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Belarus | 100% | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Kiribati | - | 1 | 1:113,394 | 1,211 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | - | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
Lawrence (355,916) may also be a surname.
Lawrence Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Latin Laurentius ‘of Laurentium’, the name of a city, probably ultimately derived from laurus ‘a bay tree’. St Laurence the Deacon, martyred in Rome in 258, was a favourite saint in the Middle Ages, and there are 237 churches dedicated to him in England. Laurence occurs in England only as a monk’s name before the Norman Conquest, and there is only one Laurentius in Domesday Book, but it soon became common and there are a great many surnames derived from it, e.g. Lawrence, Laurence, Lawrenson, Lawrie, Laurie, Lowrie, Lawson (from the nickname Law), Larry, Larkin. Laurence has been very popular in Ireland since the time of St Laurence O’Toole (1130-80), Archbishop of Dublin, whose real, name was the Irish Lorcan. Larry and Lanty are the usual Irish nicknames; Laurie is Scottish.
Laurentius Domesday Book 1086. Laurencius Curia Regis Rolls 1197, 1213-15, Feudal Aids 1364. Laurence Hundred Rolls 1273. Larance Visitation of Yorkshire 1563, Church Registers of St. Mary Aldermary, 1558-1754 1603. Law jrks Poll Tax of West Riding of Yorkshire 1379 1379.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Lawrence Forename Popularity
Lawrence Demographics
Average Male Lawrence Height
176.15 cm
Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 7,470 (2014)
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
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