Larue
Feminine · “the street”
Larue is given to both — 3,980 girls and 1,540 boys since 1880. See Larue as a boy nameSee other names given to both
French built surnames out of addresses. Dubois is from the wood, Dupont from the bridge, Deschamps from the fields, Larue from the street — the family who lived on the one street the village had. Those names crossed to Quebec and Louisiana, and in America a surname is only ever one generation away from being a first name.
How old is the name Larue?
Larue first appears in US birth records in 1893 — 132 years ago. The typical Larue alive today was born around 1929, making them about 96 years old. About 1,100 people named Larue are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Larue most popular?
Larue peaked in 1920, reaching #590 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 10,327 places below that high. See the whole 1920 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ruga to Larue
The story of Larue
Locative surnames are the commonest kind in French and they are unusually literal. A man is du Pont because he lives by the bridge, and there is no metaphor in it. Larue names the street itself, which suggests a settlement small enough that saying the street was enough to place a family. The name traveled to New France and to Louisiana, and American English then did what it does with French surnames, which is give them to children as first names without regard to the sex of anything — Larue was recorded for both boys and girls from the beginning. The word has two English homonyms that have nothing to do with it: rue the herb, from Greek, and rue meaning regret, which is Germanic.
Meaning
the street
French la rue, the street, from Latin ruga, which meant a wrinkle or furrow and then a row of houses. It was a locative surname: a family identified by where their house stood. The article is part of the name, which is why it is written as one word.
How the name formed
- ruga
- la rue
- Larue
Related forms: Larue
Pronouncing Larue
luh-ROO
Two syllables, stress on the second. The French u is a sound English does not have, made with rounded lips and the tongue forward; an English oo is understood everywhere.
Nicknames for Larue
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1893
- Most girls named
- 1927134 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #590reached in 1920
- Change vs 2023
- −38.5%8 in 2025, from 13
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Larue in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Larue in French — same name
Larues among us
people named Larue are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Larue
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alverta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Larue's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alverta climbed just as high around 1903, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alverta's path sketches the road Larue is walking now.
Larue sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Larue beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Larue in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented French meaning that is an ordinary word rather than a reconstruction.
- It serves either child, and American records show it doing so from the start.
- Rue works as a short form and stands alone as a name.
- It is strongly represented among the oldest generations and reads clearly as of that time.
- LaRue and La Rue are also written, so the spacing and capitals will be queried.
- Rue in English means regret, and people who notice will say so.
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Feminine · #10917 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Larues are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Larue are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Larue in 2025?
- Larue ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Larue?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Larue — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Larue with classmates?
- Larue will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Larue
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