Entry № 5763 · French origin

Laurence Laurence — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Crowned with laurel"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "crowned with laurel".

Laurence is a name of French origin, meaning crowned with laurel.

Crowned with laurel — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Laurence
Transliteration
Laurence
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Laurence stands.

Laurence does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Laurences before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Laurence.

The number behind Laurence.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Laurence reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.