Given name & surname
Laurine
“laurel”
Laurine is a feminine given name from French. It is used in French and Danish.
Original FrenchLaure
Meaning & origin
What it means
Laurine goes back to Latin laurus, meaning “laurel.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In French usage, Laurine is a diminutive of Laure.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1891. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Laurine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,526
- 0 boys · 2,526 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 74 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 girls is 6 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 74 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,237 as a first name in 2020; 116 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.
Laurine’s family of names
In French usage, Laurine is a diminutive of Laure. Laurine has a related form in Laura.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Laurine
- Laurine van RiessenDutch speed skater and track cyclistborn 1987
- Laurine LecavelierFrench figure skaterborn 1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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