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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/).

Alive in 2025
432
Newborns 2025
2
National rank
#1424

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.

People with the name Lars 2019 → 2025
432 +144 since 2019
2020 303 +15
2021 327 +24
2022 355 +28
2023 386 +31
2024 409 +23
2025 432 +23

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.

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2 newborns with the name Lars in 2025
national rank #1654 that year

Where parents choose Lars

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%).

Chosen most
  • Greater Poland
    +187%
    1 in 107,622 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    +172%
    1 in 113,458 babies
  • Masovian
    +161%
    1 in 118,088 babies

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).

As a first name
432
As a middle name
108
first name 80% middle name 20%
Middle-name ranking men

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