Laurance

Where Laurance comes from

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  • Vowel-ended
Laurance through the years
  1. 1885
    Debut at its peak, #765
    #765 among boys with 7 babies in the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1893
    Laurance Safford born
    American cryptographer
  4. 1910
    Laurance Rockefeller born
    American businessman, conservationist, financier, philanthropist
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Laurance Rockefeller · American businessman, conservationist, financier, philanthropist, 1910–2004
  • Laurance Safford · American cryptographer, 1893–1973
  • Laurance Labadie · American anarchist, 1898–1975
  • Laurance Toombs DuBose · American military personnel, 1893–1967

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