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Baby name
Larry
Boy
Origin of the name
Larry is an English pet form of Lawrence, from the Latin Laurentius, “from Laurentum.”
Short-lived name
807,588births since 1880
1940sgeneration
No. 10rank at its peak, in 1947
Where babies named Larry are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Larry is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Larry is most common in West Virginia (2.1 times), Arkansas (1.9) and Kansas (1.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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