Lars

Where Lars comes from

Borrowed from North Germanic, from Latin Laurentius.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lars
  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1883
    Debut at its peak, #720
    #720 among boys with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1956
    Lars von Trier born
    Danish film director and screenwriter
  4. 1963
    Lars Ulrich born
    Danish musician
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones.
Namesakes
  • Lars von Trier · Danish film director and screenwriter, born 1956
  • Lars Ulrich · Danish musician, born 1963
  • Lars Onsager · American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, 1903–1976
  • Lars Løkke Rasmussen · 25th Prime Minister of Denmark, born 1964
  • Lars Bender · German footballer, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.