Lawson

Where Lawson comes from

Lawson 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.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #381 among boys — 20 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1992
    Lawson Craddock born
    American road cyclist
  3. 1997
    Lawson Crouse born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  4. 2020
    Peak, #357
    871 babies named Lawson — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lawson Craddock · American road cyclist, born 1992
  • Lawson Crouse · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1997
  • Lawson Robertson · American athlete and coach, 1883–1951
  • Lawson Butt · British actor and film director, 1880–1956
  • Lawson Tait · British gynaecologist and antivivisectionist, 1845–1899

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.