Lawrence

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Anglicized form of Laurence [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Laurence

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Lawrence
Genitive: Lawrences
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Lawrence
Genitive: Lawrencen
Partitive: Lawrencea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Lawrence
Genitive: Lawrences
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Lawrence
Genitive: Lawrences

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 59 people were named Lawrence (percentage of first or only given name: 24 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
187 477 0 7 187 470
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
246 0 0
n.a.
246
Denmark Denmark[9]
73
n.a.
2
n.a.
71
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
3 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
92
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
92
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Lawrence.


References

  1. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/