Entry № 5776 · English origin

Lauren Lauren — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LOR-en /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Laurel-crowned (Lauren Bacall; Lauren Groff)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "laurel-crowned (lauren bacall; lauren groff)".

Lauren is a feminine of Laurence — from the Latin laurentum ("of Laurentum," a town named for its laurel trees).

Laurel-crowned (Lauren Bacall; Lauren Groff) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Lauren
Transliteration
Lauren
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɔːr.ən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lauren stands.

Lauren 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.

Laurens before her.

Real people
Lauren Bacall
American actress.
1924 – 2014
Lauren Hutton
American supermodel.
born 1943
Lauren Groff
American novelist.
born 1978
In fiction
Lauren
Various film roles.

Names connected to Lauren.

The number behind Lauren.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lauren reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.