Laurette
Laurette is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 818th, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195685 births
- Best rank
- #818in 1904
- Since 1890
- 3,106people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,106 girls have been named Laurette in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 85 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 85 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1950s alone account for 19%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Laurette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 68 | |
| 1900s | 124 | |
| 1910s | 370 | |
| 1920s | 565 | |
| 1930s | 340 | |
| 1940s | 353 | |
| 1950s | 580 | |
| 1960s | 493 | |
| 1970s | 129 | |
| 1980s | 61 | |
| 1990s | 10 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 8 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Laurette was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Laurette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laurinepeak 1918
- Bernettapeak 1921
- Margaritepeak 1925
- Rosellepeak 1919
- Alfredapeak 1958
- Rethapeak 1924
- Maryepeak 1920
- Palmapeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.