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Updated August 7, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Crowned with laurel

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Laurel crown
  • Czechoslovakian : Crowned with laurels

How Popular Is The Name Lawrence

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Middle English and Old French personal name Lorens, Laurence (Latin Laurentius ‘man from Laurentum’, a place in Italy probably named from its laurels or bay trees). The name was borne by a saint who was martyred at Rome in the 3rd century ad; he enjoyed a considerable cult throughout Europe, with consequent popularity of the personal name (French Laurent, Italian, Spanish Lorenzo, Catalan Llorenç, Portuguese Lourenço, German Laurenz; Polish Wawrzyniec (assimilated to the Polish word wawrzyn ‘laurel’), etc.). The surname is also borne by Jews among whom it is presumably an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Ashkenazic surnames.

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