Laurence

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Any names with a similar vibe to Laurence please?

Lionel
Giles
Neville
Graeme
Leonard
Bernard

Leon
Kenelm
Ludovic
Tarquin

Laurence is on our boys list this pregnancy. Other are:
Hugh
Hugo
Edward
Oscar
Edmund
Patrick
James
Alec
Miles

I have a Laurence, we chose the name because every adult called Laurence I’d ever met was lovely. In the family he is Loz.

I love Laurence (it’s spelt like that, Lawrence is the surname) shame you can’t use it.

Patrick
Alistair
Robert
Giles
Justin
John
Jonathan
Francis
Dominic
Nicholas
Michael
Simon
Daniel
Adam

all have a similar vibe to me (classic, but not especially popular right now)

Ernest
Miles
Edmund
Edwin

Are also quite similar but a bit more dated Edwardian and currently being revived - I imagine Gerald, Arnold, Leonard and Ambrose might shortly start cropping up more too

I love Laurence (it’s spelt like that, Lawrence is the surname) shame you can’t use it.

It's often a surname but the 'w' spelling has been in use as a given name since St Lawrence of Rome in the third century. Both spellings are valid.

Laurence
Benedict
Theodore
Wilfred
Edmund
James
Dominic
Francis
Matthew
Samuel
Ambrose

@ZoyaTheDestroyer I find it unlikely that somebody in 3rd century Rome was named Lawrence. Surely that must be an Anglicised form of his actual name.

Of course. His name was Laurentius in Latin, Lorenzo in Italian, but this was anglicised to both Lawrence and Laurence from that point onwards and both spellings are valid. Informally I think Lawrence is the common anglicisation in the Catholic Church while Laurence and Lawrence are both used in Anglicanism. There will be exceptions to this, I am sure.

Lawrence is the anglicised version of Laurent.

The feminine version of Laurent is Laurence. Just like Florence is for Florent.

St Lawrence is the anglicised version of the saint's name.

In Latin it's Laurentius; Italian Lorenzo, so he'd originally have been called something similar to one of those.

The "Lawrence" version would have come later.

I also prefer Laurence as a first name and Lawrence as surname, but either spelling works for both.

Oops, sorry @ZoyaTheDestroyer cross post!

Absolutely true in France but Laurence has long been used as a masculine given name in English.

Even in French -ence isn't always feminine, e.g. Maxence.

Go Scandinavian: Lars, nn Lasse.

Has Stephen been suggested?
Robert
Philip
Richard
Jonathan
Nathaniel
Christopher
Julian
Maxmillian
Miles
Hugo
Alexander
Sebastian

We'll have Lar as a nickname if we go for Laurence (Irish nn 😁)