Laurel
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#734
down −5 places
2025 births
372
down −15 births
All-time births
47,113
1% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1956
- 1,181 births
- Best rank
- #241
- in 1956
- First recorded
- 1883
- #571 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1973
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 141 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19561,181#241Peak
- 19571,123#255
- 1955982#276
- 1958965#287
- 1953938#267
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #241 in 1956 · peak births 1,181 in 1956
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 4% boys■ 96% girls
1,860 boys · 47,113 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Laurel has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.