Meaning and history
From an English surname meaning “son of Laurence.”
20062006: 336 births, rank #676
2007: 371 births, rank #653
2008: 330 births, rank #707
2009: 390 births, rank #642
2010: 401 births, rank #617
20112011: 432 births, rank #580
2012: 492 births, rank #530
2013: 523 births, rank #511
2014: 576 births, rank #488
2015: 699 births, rank #436
20162016: 716 births, rank #434
2017: 713 births, rank #433
2018: 853 births, rank #380
2019: 870 births, rank #368
2020: 871 births, rank #357
20212021: 896 births, rank #364
2022: 786 births, rank #410
2023: 775 births, rank #412
2024: 775 births, rank #415
20252025: 830 births, rank #381
Lawson rose from #415 to #381 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2021, with 896 births.