First name origins & meanings:
- Latin: Crowned with laurel
- Latin: Laurel crown
- Czechoslovakian: Crowned with laurels
First name variations: Laurence, Lawrance, Lorenz, Loren, Laurens, Lorin, Lorcan, Lon, Lonnie, Loring, Lawford, Lawley, Lawton, Lawler, Laughton, Lawry, Larry, Laurent, Lorenzo, Lauritz, Lorne, Lawson, Lars, Larson, Larkin, Labhras, Vavrinec
Last name origin & meaning:
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name
Lorens, Laurence (Latin Laurentius ‘man from
Laurentum’, a place in Italy probably named from its laurels or
bay trees). The name was borne by a saint who was martyred at Rome in
the 3rd century ad; he enjoyed a considerable cult throughout
Europe, with consequent popularity of the personal name (French
Laurent, Italian, Spanish Lorenzo, Catalan
Llorenç, Portuguese Lourenço, German
Laurenz; Polish Wawrzyniec (assimilated to the Polish
word wawrzyn ‘laurel’), etc.). The surname is also borne by
Jews among whom it is presumably an Americanized form of one or more
like-sounding Ashkenazic surnames.
Famous people with this last name:
Martin Lawrence,
Joey Lawrence
This name appears in the following lists:
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