Given name

Lauris

Lauris is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Latvian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Lauris comes from Latin.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Latin Laurentius.

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The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Lauris through the years

Babies since 1880
299
167 boys · 132 girls
Most popular year
1925
18 babies
2025
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2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
Boys Girls
051015192019401960198020002025Highest share 1913Boys 0.0Girls 0.0
Lauris in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1912–2025, per million births of each sex. 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 1966. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 389 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.

Lauris’s family of names

In Latvian usage, Lauris has a conventional equivalent in the French form Laurent. In Latvian usage, Lauris has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Laurêncio. In Latvian usage, Lauris has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Lourenço.

Walk Lauris’s family in the name graph

LaurisLaurenceLaurentLauriLarisLaurysΛαυρέντιοςLaurêncio

The ring: across languages.

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Around the world

Lauris has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.

PortugueseLatin

5 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Across languages 8

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

Similar names

If you love Lauris, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Latin · Old-fashioned

Claudie

“one who is lame”

0Not recently recorded

44% boys · 56% girls

Latin · Shared

Valentine

“one who is strong and healthy”

44UncommonRising

55% boys · 45% girls

Hebrew · Shared

Joan

“God is gracious”

56FamiliarRising

56% boys · 44% girls

Swedish

Luuri

Luuri is a surname from Latin, ultimately from Swedish. It is used in Finnish.

No U.S. birth series

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Latin

Laurendi

“man from Latium”

No U.S. birth series

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Latin

Laurencjusz

“man from Latium”

No U.S. birth series

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Latin

Lemos

“elm”

No U.S. birth series

71% boys · 29% girls

Germanic

Landín

“to dare”

No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

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