Laurel

What Laurel means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Laurel yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1956, with 1,181 babies; 372 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Laurel?

US: Steady: #768 in 2015, #734 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1405 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1956, when 1,181 girls got the name (#241 that year). First in the US records in 1883.

How common

• About 1 in 4,321 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 14,899 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NH (1.32 per 1,000 girls), PA (0.77 per 1,000 girls), MS (0.67 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Laurel is #734 in the US and #1719 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Laurel were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Laurelle5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Laurel

Girls

• Emerald#741From the word “emerald”^*
• Edith#499“wealth, riches + battle”^*
• Bonnie#396“fine, beautiful”^*
• Raven#404Editor’s note Up from #486 in 2015 to #404 in 2025 in the US
• Joy#419From the word “joy”^*
• Goldie#621From the word “gold”^*

For a brother

• Alfred#840“elf + counsel”^*
• Sage#455“sedge”^*
• Harold#991“army + ruler, authority”^*
• Sonny#298Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #822 in 2015, #298 in 2025
• Aspen#920Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1990, with 8 babies
• Royal#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #2,014 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Laurel’s. Rank is US 2025.