Lars
Germanic in origin, carried from the Scandinavian world, with a meaning of "crowned with laurel". In Poland it stays rare and given only to boys, with newborns trickling in a few at a time and slowly fading.
Lars Pronunciation
Lars is pronounced LAHRS (/lars/).
What Lars means
Where Lars comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lars comes from the Germanic north. It is the Scandinavian form of an older name, short and unadorned, common across Sweden and Norway. Its short meaning is crowned with laurel, the wreath that once marked victory and poetry.
That laurel sense arrived through the Latin Laurentius, and it fastened onto Lars long after the first men answered to it. The name keeps no diminutives and no variants. What you get is Lars, whole.
History gives it real bearers. Lars Levi Laestadius, the nineteenth-century Swedish botanist and Lutheran preacher, carried it into both plant catalogues and church history. On a Polish class register today, a Lars sits among the Szymons and Jakubs, plainly Nordic. And the meaning holds: crowned with laurel.
How many people are named Lars
1 in 49412 men in Poland is named Lars. 432 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1424 among male names.
Lars's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1654 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020. Still the #1424 name among living men, even as it slips to #1654 among newborns.
Where Lars is most popular
Lars is most popular in Greater Poland, 187% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+172%) and Masovian (+161%).
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Greater Poland2 boys born+187%
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Lesser Poland2 boys born+172%
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Masovian3 boys born+161%
Lars as a middle name
Lars is a first name for 432 men in Poland and a middle name for another 108, an 80/20 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 680th, between Juhani (108) and Carlo (107).
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#678 Adel108
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#679 Juhani108
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#680 Lars108
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#681 Carlo107
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#682 Furkan107