Lauryn is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Lauryn 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, Lauryn ranks 560. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Lauryn. In the entire USA, approximately 19,561 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lauryn. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Lauryn is a modern variant of Lauren, originally a boy’s name. As a short form of [Laurence], it means ‘from Laurentum’, a city in ancient Italy, or ‘the shining one’. Lauren was popularized as a feminine name by actress Betty Jean Perske, who used Lauren Bacall as her stage name.
The variant Lauryn was ... invented in the 1980s and had its most popular phase around 2000.
Lauryn is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Lauryn - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 161 in 1999. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Lauryn really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lauryn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
290 babies were named Lauryn in 2022 - that's 1 in 511,144 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Lauryn ranked 836 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 Lauryn 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 Lauryn 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 Lauryn, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Unicorn
Rocket
Yoyo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lauryn
Lauryn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
U
R
Y
N
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
U
R
Y
N
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. Lauryn sounds like this:
