Lawrence
Lawrence is a boy name of Latin origin, meaning Crowned with laurel.
What Lawrence means
Crowned with laurel.
Lawrence sits at 8 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Lawrence comes from
Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.
Lawrence is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.
How popular is Lawrence?
Lawrence sits outside the top 100 boy names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Lawrence
Two ideas meet in Lawrence: the long-established classics and royalty and rule. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Lawrence
These share Lawrence's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- August — Great, venerable, majestic.
- Augustus — Great, venerable and majestic.
- Julius — Youthful; downy-bearded.
- Octavian — The eighth-born.
- Augusta — Great and venerable.
- Diana — Divine; goddess of the moon and hunt.
- Victoria — Victory.
- Alexander — Defender of the people.
- Henry — Ruler of the home.
- William — Resolute protector.
- Cesare — Long-haired; emperor.
- Charles — Free man.
More Latin names
- Laurel — The laurel; honour and victory.
- Leo — Lion. Brave and warm-hearted.
- Laura — Laurel; victory and honour.
- Liberty — Freedom.
- Juno — Queen of the heavens.
- Lionel — Young lion.
- Juniper — The evergreen juniper; youth-giving.
- Livia — Olive; blue.
- Junia — Born in June; youthful.
- Lucas — Bringer of light.