Laurence is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Laurence is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Laurence. In the SmartGenius ranking, Laurence is #2,041 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 32,396 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Laurence. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Laurence annualy. This means that there have been boys named Laurence who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Laurence have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Laurence even more than any other time: in 1898, it holds its present record at rank #181 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Laurence was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Laurence has never been ranked higher than #181. In 2022, he rivaled the 2,105 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 59 boys named Laurence were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Laurence were born, there have been 124 newborns who received this name.
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 eight letters, the name Laurence is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Laurence 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 Laurence, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Unicorn
Rocket
Elephant
Nut
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Laurence
Laurence
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. Laurence sounds like this: