Lorenz is a boy's name of German origin meaning “from Laurentum.” In 2024 it was given to 10 boys in the United States.
Lorenz at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
German
Meaning
“from Laurentum”
Pronunciation
/ləˈɹɛnz/
About the name Lorenz
Lorenz belongs to the German tradition. Its meaning — “from Laurentum” — is the sense carried by its German roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Lorenz first appears in Social Security records in 1882. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #799 in 1887, and in 2024 10 babies received the name — 1,746 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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