Laurice

Where Laurice comes from

The dictionaries list Laurice as a given name — a female given name from Latin — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,009 among girls, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1926
    Peak, #1,325
    35 babies named Laurice — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1929
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,098.
  4. 2006
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Laurice hasn't yet.

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.