Given name & surname
Laurance
“man from Laurentum; crowned with laurel”
Laurance is a variant of Lawrence. One Latin interpretation is “man from Laurentum; crowned with laurel.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Laurance is a variant of Lawrence. One Latin interpretation is “man from Laurentum; crowned with laurel.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1885. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Laurance through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,937
- 1,932 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 47 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 47 in 1956. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,123 as a first name in 2020; 330 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Laurance’s family of names
Laurance has a related form in Lawrence.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Lorenzoequivalent
- Laurenceequivalent
- Larsequivalent
- Laurentequivalent
- Lorenzequivalent
- Lauranequivalent
- Laurencjuszequivalent
- Lourençoequivalent
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People named Laurance
- Laurance RockefellerAmerican businessman, conservationist, financier, philanthropist (1910-2004)
- Laurance SaffordAmerican cryptographer (1893–1973)
- Laurance LabadieAmerican anarchist1898–1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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