How Many People Are Named Lawyer?
people named Lawyer are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,229,441 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,021 babies named Lawyer in Social Security records from 1880 to 2021, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
31 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Lawyer in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Lawyer alive today is about 61 years old, and 64% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 48 and 77 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Lawyer first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1930, to 31 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2021.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2021
🏆 Rank History
Lawyer has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #562, in 1886.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #562 (1886) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,446 in the 1910s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Lawyer alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Lawyer were born in Mississippi than in any other state: about 8 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lawyer was given about 26.7 times as often in Mississippi.
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