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). 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.
Lauryn 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.
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.