Laurice
Feminine · “from the laurel”
Laurice is given to both — 1,739 girls and 280 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Laurie shortens this name and Laurice lengthens it, from the same starting point in opposite directions. One cuts to two syllables and an affectionate ending; the other adds a syllable and a formal one, and the two results have almost nothing in common except the first four letters.
How old is the name Laurice?
Laurice first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Laurice alive today was born around 1954, making them about 71 years old. About 1,100 people named Laurice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laurice most popular?
Laurice peaked in 1926, reaching #1325 nationally. See the whole 1926 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Laura to Laurice
The story of Laurice
The ending is doing something it rarely does. Names in -ice are almost all built on French or Latin stems that already ended in a consonant cluster — Patrice, Clarice, Bernice — and attaching it to a Latin stem ending in a vowel, as here, requires cutting something first. That makes this one of a very small group where the ending has been applied to a name that did not have a natural place for it, and the seam is visible: the name has to lose a syllable to gain one, which is a net change of nothing and a considerable change of shape.
Meaningscholars disagree
from the laurel, or from a Roman town
The name shortens both a woman's name from the plant and a man's from a place, and those are not the same word. Which one a family had cannot be recovered.
How the name formed
- Laura
- Laurice
Pronouncing Laurice
law-REECE
Two syllables with the weight at the back. Some families front the stress and say LAW-riss, and both readings are heard.
Nicknames for Laurice
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
- 1914
- Most girls named
- 195443 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1325reached in 1926
- Change vs 2001
- −28.6%5 in 2006, from 7
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.
Laurices among us
people named Laurice 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
Laurice 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
- The stress at the back gives it a decisive finish.
- It is far rarer than any of its relatives.
- The spelling follows the sound once the stress is placed.
- The stress placement is unsettled and strangers will guess.
- Most children with this spelling are girls, but a real minority are boys; either may be taken for the other.
- The origin is contested between two unrelated candidates.
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Frequently asked
- How many Laurices 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 Laurice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Laurice in 2025?
- Laurice is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Laurice with classmates?
- Laurice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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