As a diminutive of Laurence, Larry means ‘from Laurentum’. Laurentum was a city in ancient Italy and inspired the Roman nickname Laurentius.
Larry is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Larry isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Larry ranks 591. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Larry. In total, there are currently 800,868 people – children, adults and seniors – named Larry living in the United States, which is approximately 0.24 % of the entire population.
As a diminutive of Laurence, Larry means ‘from Laurentum’. Laurentum was a city in ancient Italy and inspired the Roman nickname Laurentius.
Larry was always... a rare name in the U.S., except from the 1930s to the 1960s, when it was extremely popular. In the late 1940s, nearly 2% of all newborn boys were named Larry.
History tends to focus on the most famous and the best. But even those who play second fiddle leave their mark: Larry is one of those names without which the orchestra would be incomplete. In fact, the SmartGenius top ranking #10 has been hit more than once, although the last instance was some time ago, way back in the last century in 1949. But even though the peak of its popularity was many decades ago, the name Larry has been given to newborn boys every year since records began. Larry is a name of exceptional enduring popularity, conveying the special vibes of the 20th century.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Larry was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Larry. Because: There are men and boys named Larry in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, just 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Larry is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular male first names, for example in Arkansas, where Larry ranks on position 12. The greatest chance of meeting Larry, however, is in West Virginia, where one in 96 boys and men bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 209 men and boys and in Massachusetts, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,310 men and boys for their name before you once get Larry as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Larry is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Larry and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Larry, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Rocket
Rocket
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Larry
Larry
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
R
R
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
A
R
R
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Larry sounds like this:
