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Lauren is a great name on its face. And a whole lot of parents in the 80s and 90s agreed... heck, I might have, too, if I'd been a parent then.

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That's why Lauren seems dated, whereas Laura is timeless.

I can't use it due to the fact that it's "too old" for me. I had been around Lauren's my age and older. Like Stephanie, Ashley, and Jessica, they are millenial/mom names. However, I would use Lauren as a middle name like Esme Lauren or Willow Lauren

Not a name I'd ever use, but fascinating. In English, I would use Laura in a heartbeat (but it was impossible with Beatrice and no Italian connection!), so I never gave Lauren serious thought. Compared to Laura, it seems drab and uninteresting. My French friend Michele was teaching French in England at one point, and she arranged penfriends for her classes: they wrote in French, the French kids replied in English so it was a win-win situation. One day she heard one of the girls in her class bragging to her friends that she had a French boy penpal, which Michele knew was impossible; she'd deliberately chosen a girls-only school in Lyon. It turned out that the girl penpal's name was Laurence, which the English child knew as a male name; she'd never heard of Laurent.

Boring. Overused and 80s /90s dated here *no offense. I prefer Laurel / Laurelle

I really like it. It has always been in my top 10; mostly because of a childhood best friend who passed when we were 19.

Love it

It's pretty, and I wish that I could use it. Definitely go for it. Love the name Lauren.

On one hand, it seems like an 80s trend name, like Ashley. My mom says there was a Lauren craze in our city around the time I was born. I knew/know so many. When I was a kid, I had a fixation with this name (and many others). I thought it was glorious. I know I had a very rich friend named Lauren and she had a double staircase in her house and I was enamored with it, so that might be why. Anyway, I wanted to be a Lauren pretty badly for a while. (Also a Laura and strangely, a Laurie.) I still think that Lauren has a really pretty and gentle sound. I do like it. However, I also think it's kind of boring and I have known more deeply boring Laurens than boring people by any other name.

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One of my guilty pleasure sibsets is Lauren, Megan, and Caitlin.

I agree. It's also youthful but at the same time, young-ladyish and not baby-talk. It makes a nice mn too.