Name profile

Lawrence

masculine

91First-name usabilityHighly workable

Evidence coverageLimited

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Surname/place-name-derived name: a variant spelling of Laurence, from the Latin surname Laurentius, "of Laurentum" (an ancient city in Latium, Italy), rather than a name coined from a standalone lexical root.

Why it works

English speakers will almost certainly pronounce it correctly on the first try

What to know

pronunciation varies somewhat by language — see "How it travels" for the specifics

Popularity

Uncommon — #520 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Meaning and origin

Lawrence means Derives from the Roman place name Laurentum (a city in ancient Italy), itself traditionally connected to Latin laurus ("laurel"); the name does not have a direct standalone lexical meaning beyond this place-name/surname chain.

Documented origin: Surname/place-name-derived name: a variant spelling of Laurence, from the Latin surname Laurentius, "of Laurentum" (an ancient city in Latium, Italy), rather than a name coined from a standalone lexical root.

Documented as a variant or related form of another name.

How it travels

English and Turkish are shown by default; German is included when it adds a meaningfully different reading.

EnglishLOR-ans — US Englishresearched pronunciation

TurkishEnglish reading conventions often soften or drop a trailing "-e"; Turkish is pronounced letter-by-letter, so Turkish speakers are likely to voice that final syllable clearly where English speakers may not.deterministic phonetic analysis

GermanEnglish reading conventions often soften or drop a trailing "-e"; German is pronounced letter-by-letter, so German speakers are likely to voice that final syllable clearly where English speakers may not.deterministic phonetic analysis

Spelling stability: high — based on letter-pattern analysis, not a documented linguistic fact.

Also documented

British English: LOR-ans

Popularity without panic

Uncommon — #520 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Still uncommon, but no longer unfamiliar.

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Real-world considerations

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