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Baby name
Lawrence
Boy
Origin of the name
Lawrence comes from the Latin Laurentius, “from Laurentum,” a town near Rome. It is the English form of the French Laurent.
Classic name
461,170births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 35rank at its peak, in 1952
Where babies named Lawrence are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Lawrence is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Lawrence is most common in District of Columbia (2.1 times), Vermont (2) and Maine (2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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