Fun Facts About the Name Lorence
- 692 babies named Lorence: U.S. records list 692 babies given the name Lorence from 1880 through 2025. Even 6 girls received the name Lorence - about 1 girl for every 114 boys.
What Does the Name Lorence Mean?
Lorence is a spelling variant of the English name Laurence (also written Lawrence), which comes from the Latin Laurentius, meaning "of Laurentum." Laurentum was a town in ancient Latium, on the coastal plain near Rome, and its name is traditionally connected with Latin laurus, the laurel or bay tree. Because of that link, the name is commonly glossed as "laurel" or "laurelled." The literal sense is geographic, describing someone from Laurentum, while the laurel meaning is a customary interpretation that grew out of the town's name rather than a separate root.
Lorence Name History & Origins
Laurentius began as a Roman name taken from the town of Laurentum. It spread widely in Christian Europe through Saint Lawrence, a deacon of the church in Rome who was martyred in 258 during the persecution under the emperor Valerian. Devotion to him carried the name through Latin and Greek into the vernacular languages, and it entered medieval French as forms such as Lorens, later Laurent (with Laurence as the French feminine form). From French it passed into English after the Norman Conquest as Laurence and Lawrence.
Lorence belongs to the same English family of spellings. English personal names were written in many ways before spelling became standardized in the 18th century, and forms such as Laurence, Lawrence, Lawrance, and Loren appear alongside one another in records of the period. Lorence follows this pattern of simplification, using the plain o sound in place of the au or aw of the longer spellings. It is used as a given name and also occurs as a surname. Its story is that of the Laurence/Lawrence name rather than a separate origin of its own.
How Popular is the Name Lorence?
Lorence has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1924. Its best rank was #1,797 in 1956.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | #4,813 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #10,281 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #8,059 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #11,690 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2021 | #10,359 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #10,328 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #10,357 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #13,427 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #10,306 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2012 | #9,379 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2010 | #13,493 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2009 | #10,571 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #10,594 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 2006 | #13,234 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 2005 | #10,948 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #12,031 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #11,482 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1997 | #7,016 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1996 | #8,571 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1992 | #7,122 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #6,991 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1989 | #5,990 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1986 | #7,398 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1985 | #5,518 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1984 | #6,046 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1982 | #6,099 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1979 | #6,655 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1971 | #4,717 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1969 | #4,776 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1968 | #4,504 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1967 | #4,325 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1966 | #3,420 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1965 | #4,239 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1963 | #3,222 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1962 | #3,867 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1961 | #4,426 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1959 | #4,339 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1958 | #3,456 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1957 | #3,437 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1956 | #1,797 | 20 | 0.0009% |
| 1954 | #2,170 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1953 | #2,830 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1952 | #2,801 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1951 | #3,247 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1950 | #3,991 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1949 | #2,729 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1948 | #3,192 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1947 | #4,053 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1946 | #2,627 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 1945 | #2,081 | 12 | 0.0009% |
| 1943 | #2,865 | 8 | 0.0006% |
| 1942 | #1,916 | 15 | 0.0011% |
| 1941 | #2,789 | 8 | 0.0007% |
| 1940 | #1,948 | 14 | 0.0012% |
| 1939 | #2,246 | 11 | 0.0010% |
| 1938 | #3,390 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1937 | #2,806 | 8 | 0.0008% |
| 1936 | #2,766 | 8 | 0.0008% |
| 1935 | #2,641 | 9 | 0.0009% |
| 1934 | #2,679 | 9 | 0.0009% |
| 1933 | #3,171 | 7 | 0.0007% |
| 1932 | #3,253 | 7 | 0.0007% |
| 1931 | #2,277 | 12 | 0.0012% |
| 1930 | #2,711 | 10 | 0.0009% |
| 1929 | #3,795 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1928 | #3,258 | 8 | 0.0007% |
| 1927 | #2,629 | 11 | 0.0010% |
| 1926 | #3,041 | 9 | 0.0008% |
| 1925 | #3,051 | 9 | 0.0008% |
| 1924 | #1,817 | 20 | 0.0018% |
| 1923 | #3,678 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1922 | #2,298 | 14 | 0.0013% |
| 1921 | #3,124 | 9 | 0.0008% |
| 1920 | #2,407 | 13 | 0.0012% |
| 1919 | #1,850 | 18 | 0.0018% |
| 1918 | #1,959 | 17 | 0.0017% |
| 1917 | #2,052 | 15 | 0.0016% |
| 1916 | #2,107 | 14 | 0.0016% |
| 1915 | #2,028 | 14 | 0.0016% |
| 1914 | #2,377 | 9 | 0.0014% |
| 1913 | #2,188 | 8 | 0.0016% |
| 1912 | #2,163 | 7 | 0.0016% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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