Is Laurence a male or female name?
Laurence is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in France at 100% and male usage in United States at 99%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 81%
- Sample size
- 243,985
- Confidence
- high
Laurence by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France FR | female | 100% | 181,700 | insee |
| United States US | male | 99% | 40,108 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 97% | 11,343 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | female | 98% | 4,138 | bfs |
| England and Wales GB | male | 100% | 3,877 | ons |
| Ireland IE | male | 100% | 2,625 | cso |
| Poland PL | male | 53% | 100 | pesel |
| Austria AT | male | 96% | 94 | statat |
Attested in 81 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Look up Laurence with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Laurence
Is Laurence a male or female name?
Laurence is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in France at 100% and male usage in United States at 99%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Laurence change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Laurence identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.