How popular is the baby name Lauryn in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Lauryn.
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Actor Forest Whitaker and his late ex-wife, Keisha Nash, were the parents of four children:
Ocean, b. 1990 (Forest’s son from a previous relationship)
Autumn, b. 1991 (Keisha’s daughter from a previous relationship)
Sonnet, b. 1996 (daughter)
True, b. 1998 (daughter)
Their youngest, True Whitaker, was interviewed several days after the birth of Khloé Kardashian’s daughter True (in April of 2018). In the interview, she told the story behind her name:
Whitaker discovered that her parents originally planned to name her Truth before deciding on True, which was inspired by Lauryn Hill‘s version of “Can’t Take My Eyes off of You” by Frankie Valli. “I remember to this day my mother singing the lyrics ‘You’re just too good to be True’ to me in my little cradle.”
True Whitaker’s birth did not noticeably affect the usage of the baby name True in the late ’90s, but the birth of her older sister did give the rare name Sonnet a boost in 1997.
According to the U.S. baby name data, the usage of Lauryn began rising during the second half of the 1990s, then saw a pronounced spike in 1999:
2001: 1,083 baby girls named Lauryn [rank: 289th]
2000: 1,408 baby girls named Lauryn [rank: 224th]
1999: 1,883 baby girls named Lauryn [rank: 167th] (peak usage)
1998: 628 baby girls named Lauryn [rank: 421st]
1997: 498 baby girls named Lauryn [rank: 498th]
1996: 338 baby girls named Lauryn [rank: 659th]
1995: 241 baby girls named Lauryn [rank: 818th]
What was influencing the name during those years?
New Jersey-born rapper and singer Lauryn Hill.
During the 1990s, Lauryn was a member of the hip-hop group the Fugees along with Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel. The trio’s second (and final) album, The Score, was released in early 1996 and soon became one of the best-selling hip-hop albums of all time.
Fugees album
Of the album’s four singles, only “Fu-Gee-La” was released commercially in the U.S., and therefore eligible to appear on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. It peaked at #29 in March of 1996.
But the other three singles — “Killing Me Softly” (a cover of the 1973 Roberta Flack hit), “Ready or Not” (which featured an Enya sample), and “No Woman, No Cry” (a cover of the Bob Marley classic) — were no less popular, judging by how frequently they were played on the radio.
In early 1997, the Fugees won a pair of Grammy Awards — one for The Score, the other for “Killing Me Softly.”
Later the same year, however, the group broke up.
Lauryn Hill album
Lauryn went on to release her first solo album, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, in August of 1998. It eventually surpassed The Score in terms of sales, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time.
The album’s most successful single, “Doo Wop (That Thing),” ranked #1 on the Hot 100 for two weeks in November.
Here’s the music video:
The other two singles, “Ex-Factor” and “Everything Is Everything,” entered the Hot 100 in 1999. The first peaked at #21 in April, and the second at #35 in July.
And two more tracks — “To Zion” (featuring guitarist Carlos Santana) and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You” (a cover of the 1967 Frankie Valli hit) — also saw significant radio play.
In early 1999, Lauryn Hill won five Grammy Awards: two for The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, two for “Doo Wop (That Thing),” and one for herself (as Best New Artist). She became the first female artist to win five or more Grammy Awards in a single night, and Miseducation became the first hip-hop album to win Album Of The Year.
Around the same time, she became the first hip-hop artist to be featured on the cover of Time magazine.
What are your thoughts on the name Lauryn? How about Lauren? (What’s your preferred spelling of the name?)
The name Nas debuted in the U.S. baby name data back in the late 1990s:
1999: unlisted
1998: 5 baby boys named Nas
1997: 5 baby boys named Nas [debut]
1996: unlisted
1995: unlisted
What put it there?
New York rapper Nas (pronounced nahz).
His 1994 debut album Illmatic — today considered one of the best hip-hop albums ever made — didn’t meet commercial expectations.
But his second album, It Was Written (1996), saw mainstream success and produced two big singles. The first, “If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)” featuring Lauryn Hill, reached #53 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August and received a Grammy nomination. The second, “Street Dreams,” peaked even higher (#22) in January of 1997.
Nas’ stage name is short for his legal first name, Nasir (which also rose in usage as Nas rose to fame). Here’s how he explained his name back in 1994:
My whole name is Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones. Nasir is Arabic. It means “helper and protector.” Bin means “son of.” Jones is the slave part. N*ggas weren’t trying to say my name back in the days. When we used to tag up on trains and high places, we’d climb up — I didn’t want to write Nasir, you couldn’t even say it — I’d just write Nas or Kid Wave.
(“Kid Wave” was a name he used for breakdancing.)
Nas’ father, Mississippi-born jazz trumpeter Olu Dara, changed his name from Charles Jones III in the late 1960s. His new name is made up of the Yoruba words olu, short for oluwa, meaning “God” or “lord,” and dara, meaning “good.”
What are your thoughts on the name Nas?
P.S. From 2005 to 2010, Nas was married to singer Kelis. Their only child together was a son named Knight, born in 2009.
Garcia, Bobbito. “Streets Disciple.” Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic, ed. by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai, Basic Civitas Books, 2010, pp. 225-235.
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 1, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 1-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “ones” in numerology?
Turning names into numbers
Here’s how to calculate the numerological value of a name.
First, for each letter, come up with a number to represent that letter’s position in the alphabet. (Letter A would be number 1, letter B would be number 2, and so forth.) Then, add all the numbers together. If the sum has two or more digits, add the digits together recursively until the result is a single digit. That single digit is the name’s numerological value.
For instance, the letters in the name Taylor correspond to the numbers 20, 1, 25, 12, 15, and 18. The sum of these numbers is 91. The digits of 91 added together equal 10, and the digits of 10 added together equal 1 — the numerological value of Taylor.
Baby names with a value of 1
Below you’ll find the most popular 1-names per gender, according to the latest U.S. baby name data. I’ve further sub-categorized them by total sums — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone.
1 via 10
The letters in the following baby names add up to 10, which reduces to one (1+0=1).
Girl names (1 via 10)
Boy name (1 via 10)
Eda, Dea, Ebba, Adda, Ade
Ade
1 via 19
The letters in the following baby names add up to 19, which reduces to one (1+9=10; 1+0=1).
Girl names (1 via 19)
Boy names (1 via 19)
Mae, Ema, Abbie, Alea, Aela
Adam, Jace, Dan, Jed, Jah
1 via 28
The letters in the following baby names add up to 28, which reduces to one (2+8=10; 1+0=1).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number one. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 1 being described as “leader,” “independent,” “determined,” “creative,” and “self-assured.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are a few things that are associated with the number 1:
Unity
Uniqueness
First place (as in sports)
Unicorn
Monolith
I kept the list short because you can associate the number 1 with just about anything. It’s universal, you might say. (See what I did there?)
What does the number 1 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
P.S. To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.
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