Laurence

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɒ.ɹəns/
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• General-American: /ˈlɔɹəns/
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• New-York-City: /ˈlɑɹəns/
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From the name of a third century Roman martyr, Latin Laurentius, "a person from Laurentum", the place name possibly derived from laurus (“laurel”).

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: Renës — male given name
• Albanian: Renes — male given name
• Arabic: لورانس — male given name
• Aragonese: Lorient — male given name
• Armenian: Լորիս — male given name
• Catalan: Llorenç — male given name
• Chinese Mandarin: 勞倫斯 /劳伦斯 (Láolunsī) — male given name
• Chinese Mandarin: 老楞佐 (Lǎoléngzuǒ) — male given name
• Corsican: Lorenzu — male given name
• Corsican: Lurenzu — male given name
• Czech: Vavřinec — male given name
• Danish: Lars — male given name
• Dutch: Laurens — male given name
• Esperanto: Laŭrenco — male given name
• Estonian: Lauri — male given name
• Faroese: Lavrans — male given name
• Faroese: Laars — male given name
• Faroese: Lars — male given name
• Finnish: Lauri — male given name
• French: Laurent — male given name
• Old French: Lorenz — male given name
• Friulian: Lurinç — male given name
• Galician: Lourenzo — male given name
• German: Lorenz — male given name
• Greek: Λαυρέντιος (Lavréntios) — male given name
• Greenlandic: Laasi — male given name
• Hungarian: Lőrinc — male given name
• Icelandic: Lárus — male given name
• Irish: Labhrás — male given name
• Italian: Lorenzo — male given name
• Japanese: ロレンス (Rorensu) — male given name
• Japanese: ローラン (Rōran) — male given name
• Ladin: Laurënz — male given name
• Latin: Laurentius — male given name
• Latvian: Lauris — male given name
• Ligurian: Loénso — male given name
• Lithuanian: Laurynas — male given name
• Lombard: Lorenz — male given name
• Neapolitan: Lurenzo — male given name
• Norman: Louothains — male given name
• Norwegian: Lars — male given name
• Norwegian: Laurits — male given name
• Occitan: Laurenç — male given name
• Old Occitan: Laurens — male given name
• Old Norse: Lafranz — male given name
• Old Tupi: Rorẽso — male given name
• Polish: Laurencjusz — male given name
• Polish: Laurenty — male given name
• Polish: Wawrzyniec — male given name
• Portuguese: Lourenço — male given name
• Portuguese: Laurêncio — male given name
• Romanian: Laurențiu — male given name
• Russian: Лавре́нтий (Lavréntij) — male given name
• Russian: Лоренс — male given name
• Scottish Gaelic: Labhrainn — male given name
• Serbo-Croatian: Ловро — male given name
• Serbo-Croatian: Lovro — male given name
• Slovak: Vavrinec — male given name
• Slovene: Lovrenc — male given name
• Spanish: Lorenzo — male given name
• Swedish: Lars — male given name
• Ukrainian: Лавре́нтій (Lavréntij) — male given name
• Venetan: Łorenso — male given name
• Vietnamese: Lôrensô — male given name