Boy
Larry
Larry is a boy's name meaning "From Laurentum", drawing on Latin roots. It had its heyday in the 1940s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is a name nearly everyone knows in the registry. 1947 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
LatinDiminutive of Lawrence
LatinFrom Laurentum
Births by decade
1900s
634
1910s
2,612
1920s
7,293
1930s
65,485
1940s
256,605
1950s
246,607
1960s
109,189
1970s
58,675
1980s
31,568
1990s
15,996
2000s
9,134
2010s
4,678
Peaked in the 1940s · 808,476 total U.S. births since 1900