Laurette
Feminine · “laurel”
Laurette is the French diminutive where Laurene is the American one. Both take the same base and make it smaller or dearer, but French had a rule and America had a habit, and the two endings landed in the record within a generation of each other doing the same job.
How old is the name Laurette?
Laurette first appears in US birth records in 1890 — 135 years ago. The typical Laurette alive today was born around 1941, making them about 84 years old. About 1,500 people named Laurette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laurette most popular?
Laurette peaked in 1904, reaching #805 nationally. See the whole 1904 chart.
Where it comes from
From laurus to Laurette
The story of Laurette
The Romans thought the laurel could not be struck by lightning. Pliny records it as an established belief, and Suetonius says the emperor Tiberius wore a laurel wreath during thunderstorms and went indoors, which suggests he was hedging. The tree was sacred to Apollo, planted by doorways, and carried by messengers bringing good news; the wreath given to victors and to poets comes from the same idea. Whether any of that reaches a modern Laurette is doubtful, but it is why the tree was worth naming children after in the first place, and the belief lasted well over a thousand years.
Meaning
laurel
From the Latin laurus by way of the Laurence names. The ending is a genuine French diminutive rather than a decorative one.
How the name formed
- laurus
- Laura
- Laurette
Related forms: Laurette · Lauretta · Laurita
Pronouncing Laurette
law-RET
Two syllables with the weight at the back. French says it the same way, which is unusual for a French name in American use.
Nicknames for Laurette
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
- 1890
- Most girls named
- 192371 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #805reached in 1904
- Change vs 1997
- +60.0%8 in 2015, from 5
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.
Laurette in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Laurette in French — same name
- Lauretta in Italian — same name
- Laurita in Spanish — related form
Laurettes among us
people named Laurette are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Laurette sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is a genuine French name spelled as France spells it.
- The laurel behind it is a settled, pleasant meaning that is easy to explain.
- Laurie is a ready English short form that asks nothing of anyone.
- Laurette, Loretta and Lauretta are close neighbors and will be confused.
- The stress falls at the back, which English readers may not expect.
- It reads clearly as a name of the turn of the twentieth century in America.
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- How many Laurettes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Laurette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Laurette in 2025?
- Laurette is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Laurette will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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