Lorenz
A boys’ name of Latin origin, meaning from Laurentum; a form of Lawrence.
Lorenz by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Lorenz. In the US, 12 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 39 babies in 1918, making it a 1910s name.
Other names that come from Lawrence
Like Lorenz, each of these traces back to Lawrence: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Laurenfrom laurentum; feminine form of Lawrence1,983 in the US (2017)
- Lawsonson of Lawrence; patronymic surname743 in the US (2017)
- Lawrenceof Laurentum or laurel-crowned584 in the US (2017)
- Larryfrom Laurentum; a form of Lawrence411 in the US (2017)
- Lorenfrom laurentum; a form of Lawrence159 in the US (2017)
- Lorencefrom laurentum, the laurel place; a form of Lawrence7 in the US (2017)
- Lorisfrom laurentum, the laurel place; a form of Lawrence5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Lawrancefrom laurentum; crowned with laurel; a form of Lawrence5 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lorenz. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Lorenzofrom laurentum, the laurel place378 in England and Wales (2025)
- Lorenzafrom Laurentum; laurel crowned; a form of Lawrence or Laura19 in the US (2017)
- Lorenefrom Lorraine; a form of Loraine14 in the US (2017)
- Larenzfrom laurentum; a variant of Lawrence8 in the US (2017)
- Lowenlion115 in England and Wales (2025)
- Logensmall hollow; a form of Logan36 in the US (2017)
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