Given name

Laurian

“one who lives near the laurel trees”

Laurian is used as a given name. One English interpretation is “one who lives near the laurel trees.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

One English interpretation is “one who lives near the laurel trees.”

Where it comes from

An origin associated with this spelling is English.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1946. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Laurian through the years

Babies since 1880
80
0 boys · 80 girls
Most popular year
1957
9 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Laurian in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1946–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1981. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 1957. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 271 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Laurian’s family of names

In French usage, Laurian has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Laureano. Laurian has a related form in Lauriano. Laurian has a related form in Laurien.

Walk Laurian’s family in the name graph

LaurianLaurianoLaurienLauriannLawrianLawrienoLawrianoLawrienLaurienoLaureanoLaureà

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 8

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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English

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English

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>99% girls

English · Nature

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English

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Sibling ideas

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