Laurette

Where Laurette comes from

The dictionaries list Laurette as a given name — a female given name, variant of Lauretta — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1884
    Laurette Taylor born
    American stage and silent film actress
  2. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,338 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1904
    Peak, #805
    20 babies named Laurette — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,238.
  5. 1958
    Laurette Onkelinx born
    Belgian politician
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Lauretta.
Namesakes
  • Laurette Taylor · American stage and silent film actress, 1884–1946
  • Laurette Onkelinx · Belgian politician, born 1958
  • Laurette Spang-McCook · American actress, born 1951
  • Laurette Luez · actress, 1928–1999
  • Laurette Séjourné · French-Mexican scholar in ancient American cultures, 1911–2003

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.