Lawrence (given name)

{{Infobox given name

|gender = Masculine

|language = English

|meaning = "man from Laurentum" or "bright one, shining one", "laurelled"

|petname = Larry, Lawrie, Laurie, Larold, Law

| related names = Claren, Clarence, Labhrás (Irish), Larence, Larford, Laurence (English), Lars (Germanic languages), Laurencjusz, Laurenty, Wawrzyniec (Polish), Laurens (Dutch, English), Laurent (French), Laurențiu (Romanian), Laurentius (Latin), Lavrentiy (Russian), Llorente\Lorente (Aragonese), Lorens (Scandinavian), Lorenz, Lorentz (German), Lorenzo (Italian, Spanish (Castilian)), Lőrinc (Hungarian), Lourenço (Portuguese), Vavrinec/Vavřinec (Slovak/Czech), Lovre/Lovro (Serbo-Croatian).

| see also = Bert, a name also meaning "bright"}}

Lawrence is a masculine given name. It is an Anglicisation of the French Laurent,{{cite book |last1=Hanks |first1=P |author1-link=Patrick Hanks |last2=Hardcastle |first2=K |last3=Hodges |first3=F |year=2006 |orig-year=1990 |title=A Dictionary of First Names |series=Oxford Paperback Reference |edition=2nd |publisher=Oxford University Press |publication-place=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-861060-1 |page=165 }} which is in turn derived from the Latin Laurentius or Old Greek Lavrenti.{{cite book |last1=Hanks |first1=P |author1-link=Patrick Hanks |last2=Hardcastle |first2=K |last3=Hodges |first3=F |year=2006 |orig-year=1990 |title=A Dictionary of First Names |series=Oxford Paperback Reference |edition=2nd |publisher=Oxford University Press |publication-place=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-861060-1 |page=164 }} Pet forms of Lawrence include Larry, Lawrie and, less commonly, Law.

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