Laurene

Where Laurene comes from

Laurene hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,237 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Peak, #802
    137 babies named Laurene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1957
    Laurene Landon born
    American actress
  4. 1963
    Laurene Powell Jobs born
    American political activist, business executive, philanthropist, heiress, billionaire
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,463.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Laurene Powell Jobs · American political activist, business executive, philanthropist, heiress, billionaire, born 1963
  • Laurene Landon · American actress, born 1957
  • Laurene Allen · American community and environmental health activist, born 1962

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.