Lawson

What Lawson means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #381 vs #1,035 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lawson?

US: Rising: up from #436 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #416 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 896 boys got the name (#364 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,058 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 9,377 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,455 baby boys in Scotland 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 MS (2.58 per 1,000 boys), AR (1.99 per 1,000 boys), AL (1.86 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Lawson is #381 in the US and #1035 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 93.9% of US babies named Lawson were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lawsen11 US
• Layson9 US
• Lowsan5 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 Lawson

Boys

• Leonardo#91Italian, from Old French Leonard, meaning “as strong as a lion”^*
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*

For a sister

• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Elaina#267Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #267 vs #951 in 2025
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Camila#19Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #19 vs #1,051 in 2025
• Adeline#59Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Lawson’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.