Laurita
Feminine · “Little Laura”
Laurita is the Spanish 'little Laura', and Laura is the laurel, the leaf of victory and poetry. It is the name Colombians use for their first saint, a schoolteacher who went into the forests to live among indigenous peoples.
How old is the name Laurita?
Laurita first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Laurita alive today was born around 1954, making them about 71 years old. About 400 people named Laurita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laurita most popular?
Laurita peaked in 1954, reaching #2076 nationally. See the whole 1954 chart.
Where it comes from
From laurus to Laurita
The story of Laurita
The laurel wreath crowned victors and poets in Rome, and English still says someone is 'resting on their laurels' — a phrase that first meant enjoying honors already won and only later came to mean coasting on them. Laura Montoya, a Colombian schoolteacher known to many as Madre Laura, left the city in 1914 to live and teach among the Embera and other indigenous peoples, founded a missionary order of sisters, and in 2013 became the first Colombian to be canonized. Laurita, the everyday Spanish form, came into American use with Spanish-speaking families in the early twentieth century.
Meaning
Little Laura; Laura means 'laurel'
Laura comes from Latin laurus, the bay laurel. The Spanish -ita ending makes it affectionate.
How the name formed
- laurus
- Laura
- Laurita
Related forms: Laurita · Laura · Lauretta · Laurette
Pronouncing Laurita
low-REE-tah
Three syllables with the stress on the second; the first rhymes with 'how'.
Nicknames for Laurita
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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 195426 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2076reached in 1954
- Change vs 1991
- +14.3%8 in 1992, 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.
Laurita in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Laurita in Spanish — same name
- Laura in Spanish — related form
- Lauretta in Italian — related form
- Laurette in French — related form
Lauritas among us
people named Laurita 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
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Fashion outlook
Laurita 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
- Built on Laura, a name everyone knows.
- A clear, settled meaning.
- Natural in both Spanish and English.
- English speakers may say law-REE-tuh; a first-day correction settles it.
- Some will assume it is a nickname and ask for the full name.
- It is rare outside Spanish-speaking families.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lauritas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Laurita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Laurita in 2025?
- Laurita is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Laurita with classmates?
- Laurita will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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