Laure
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Laure is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French form of Laura, from Latin laurus, 'laurel'.
- CMCameroon1 in 596◐
- FRFrance1 in 811
- IEIreland1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈87K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 376 ●
- 1 in 811 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
1.5M records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Lor in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 13 more and Loer in NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
French form of Laura, from Latin laurus, 'laurel'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #194 | 83,690 | 321K rec. | 1 in 811 | 84K | Laure | 376 |
| GB United Kingdom | #394 | 69,031 | 71K rec. | — | — | Lor | 90 |
| CA Canada | #462 | 24,149 | 25K rec. | — | 13 | Lor | 93 |
| AU Australia | #629 | 20,171 | 21K rec. | — | 1 | Lor | 48 |
| IT Italy | #610 | 9,885 | 10K rec. | — | listed | Lor | 27 |
| DE Germany | — | 6,798 | 6.8K rec. | — | 1 | Lor | 62 |
| BE Belgium | #357 | 5,146 | 6.5K rec. | — | 120 | Laure | 109 |
| CN China | — | 4,338 | 4.4K rec. | — | — | Lor | 12 |
| PH Philippines | — | 4,272 | 9K rec. | — | — | Lor | 37 |
| IE Ireland | #242 | 3,898 | 4K rec. | — | — | Lor | 12 |
| SG Singapore | #168 | 3,826 | 4.1K rec. | — | — | Lor | 29 |
| RU Russia | — | 3,642 | 4K rec. | — | — | Lor | 12 |
Roughly 84K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 811). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French654K91%
- English29K4%
- Dutch4.5K1%
- Spanish4.4K1%
- Portuguese4.3K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 654,316 | 91% |
| English | 28,526 | 4% |
| Dutch | 4,486 | 1% |
| Spanish | 4,438 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 4,344 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Laure is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Latin. See }Laura in main dictionary. Pet form: Laurette. Laurence ° Feminine form of LAURENT.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Diminutif/féminin de Laurent; du latin laurus « laurier ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du latin laurus « laurier »; forme féminine de Laurent.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Latin laurus « laurel ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, evtl. auch patronymisch zu Laurentius; 47 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 5 |
| 1906 | 5 |
| 1909 | 5 |
| 1910 | 5 |
| 1911 | 5 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1913 | 5 |
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1916 | 5 |
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1919 | 5 |
| 1920 | 5 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1922 | 10 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 10 |
| 1925 | 10 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1931 | 10 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1933 | 10 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1936 | 10 |
| 1937 | 10 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1944 | 10 |
| 1945 | 10 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 10 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 10 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1964 | 10 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2009 | 5 |
GP INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) — 82 years between 1902–2009. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Colette Peignotb. 1903FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer (1903-1938)
- Barbara Cassinb. 1947FRnot in their usual nameFrench philologist and philosopher (born 1947)
- Arielle Dombasleb. 1953FRnot in their usual nameAmerican-born French-Mexican actress and singer
- Laure Killingb. 1959FRFrench actress (1959-2019)
- Laure Gardetteb. 1969FRFrench film editor (born 1969)
- Laure Marsacb. 1970FRFrench actress, screenwriter and director
- Laure Calamyb. 1974FRFrench actress
- Lorieb. 1982FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer
- Laure de Clermont-Tonnerreb. 1983FRFrench actress (born 1983)
- Laure Manaudoub. 1986FRFrench swimmer (born 1986)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 72 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 84K | #657 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,230 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 592 | #1,825 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 384 | #3,784 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 342 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 325 | #17,375 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 200 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 191 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 155 | #113,155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 154 | #107,038 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 150 | #121,361 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 144 | #4,316 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 523 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Laure?
- We estimate roughly 87 thousand people bear Laure (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Laure have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 84 thousand people bear Laure in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled laure.
- How common is Laure compared with other names?
- In France, Laure is the 194th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Laure a male or female name?
- Laure is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Laure mean?
- Recorded meaning: French form of Laura, from Latin laurus, 'laurel'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Laure” — the 194th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.