Given name & surname · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Lourenço
“city in Latium”
Lourenço is a masculine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Portuguese and Old Galician-Portuguese.
Original LatinLaurentius
Meaning & origin
What it means
Lourenço goes back to a word meaning “city in Latium.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Lourenço comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese Lourenço, from Latin Laurentius.
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Lourenço’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Lourenço has a conventional equivalent in the English form Lawrence. In Portuguese usage, Lourenço has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Lorenzo. In Portuguese usage, Lourenço has a conventional equivalent in the English form Laurence.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Lourenço has relatives in 28 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Lourenço comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 30
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Laurentiusolder form · Latin, German
- LorenzoItalian, Spanish
- LawrenceEnglish
- LaurenceEnglish
- LarsSwedish, Norwegian Bokmål
- LaurentFrench
- Lorenzequivalent
- LauriFinnish, Estonian
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- Lauranceequivalent
- LaurisLatvian
- LaurencioSpanish
- LaurenzGerman
- Laurencjuszequivalent
- लोर्सोborrowing · kok
- ΛαυρέντιοςGreek
- ЛаврентийRussian
- LaurențiuRomanian
- WawrzyniecPolish
- LaurençOccitan
- LauritsNorwegian Bokmål
- LaurjysManx
- LárusIcelandic
- LőrincHungarian
- LourenzoGalician
- LaŭrencoEsperanto
- LovrencSlovene
- VavrinecSlovak
- LovroCroatian
- VavřinecCzech
- LlorençCatalan
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Lourenço
- Lourenço MarquesPortuguese explorer1600–1600
- Lourenço de AlmeidaPortuguese explorer1480–1508
- Lourenço OrtigãoPortuguese actorborn 1989
- Lourenço da VeigaPortuguese racecar driverborn 1979
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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95% boys · 5% girls
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