Laurance

Where Laurance comes from

Laurance hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    Debut at its peak, #765
    #765 among boys with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1893
    Laurance Safford born
    American cryptographer
  4. 1910
    Laurance Rockefeller born
    American businessman, conservationist, financier, philanthropist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Laurance Rockefeller · American businessman, conservationist, financier, philanthropist, 1910–2004
  • Laurance Safford · American cryptographer, 1893–1973
  • Laurance Labadie · American anarchist, 1898–1975
  • Laurance Toombs DuBose · American military personnel, 1893–1967

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.