Lauryn is a 20th-century American variant of Laurel — from the Latin laurus, the bay-laurel crown awarded to Roman victors. Lauryn Hill (born 1975) — *American singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer; her solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) won five Grammys at the 1999 ceremony — including Album of the Year, the first hip-hop album ever to win the top Grammy and the first time a woman had won five Grammys in a single night. "Doo Wop (That Thing)" was the first song by a female solo rapper to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Fugees' The Score (1996), with Hill, Pras, and Wyclef Jean, has sold over 22 million copies worldwide. NAACP Image Hall of Fame Award (2008). Largely retreated from public life after 1998; her infrequent appearances draw extraordinary attention — Time listed her as one of the 100 most influential people. A top-1000 US baby name since 1998. Lauryn Williams* — American Olympic sprinter and bobsledder.
Subject of countless 1990s hip-hop and R&B retrospectives.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lauryn reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.