The name Laurel is taken from the name of the laurel tree, which originated from Latin ‘laurus’. This word translates to ‘success, award, victory, honor’.
Laurel is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Laurel 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 girls names, Laurel ranks 641. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Laurel. In the entire USA, approximately 41,089 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Laurel. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Laurel is taken from the name of the laurel tree, which originated from Latin ‘laurus’. This word translates to ‘success, award, victory, honor’.
Laurel is an English... name, that is known since the 1880s. In the early 20th century, it was also used for boys.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With six letters, the name Laurel is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Laurel 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 Laurel, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Unicorn
Rocket
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Laurel
Laurel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Laurel sounds like this: