Laurel - Name Meaning — Is Your Name Helping You?

Updated December 22, 2024

Alphabetical First Name Meaning Index

• Your first name of Laurel contains many fine qualities: musical and artistic ability, good business judgment, and a sense of responsibility for the welfare of others.
   
• This makes you warm-hearted and understanding in your response to the needs and interests of those around you.
   
• You are always ready to help those in less fortunate circumstances.
   
• Your insistence on becoming involved in the affairs of others can cause them to regard you as interfering, even though you are only trying to help.
   
• A weakness lies in the fact that you are deeply affected through your feeling for others and could suffer through worry and disturbed thoughts over matters that you can do nothing about.
   
• While you have an appreciation for the finer things of life and could be successful along inspirational as well as business or professional lines of endeavour, there is a tendency to become involved in the needs and interests of others to the detriment of your own progress.
   
• Home and family are important to you and you desire to establish a settled home environment where you can enjoy the congenial companionship of friends and family.

Laurel - Detailed Meaning

Your name Laurel has made you expressive, charming, and affectionate with high ideals and goals. You are impressionable and receptive but also positive and reliable. You feel the suffering and distress of others very keenly, and are drawn into positions of helping, for example, in institutional or community work in education or health care.
 
Able to make friends easily, you can make yourself at home in almost any environment. Your fondness for home and children brings out your caring and devoted qualities. You respond very quickly to kindness. One can always appeal to your heart and receive a sympathetic hearing. You take your responsibilities seriously and must guard against worry, which can create nervous tension within you and spoil your objectivity and calmness of mind.
 

 
You must guard against agonizing excessively over inconsequential matters or matters over which you have no control.
 

 
You tend to do tasks yourself rather than to delegate to others. Sometimes this work overload leads to self-pity where you may expect too much praise and appreciation for your efforts. However, you are not inclined to hold grudges and most often you are very forgiving. Temporary moments of depression assail you, particularly under stressful times when your responsibilities become onerous.
 

 
At times, people consider you to be interfering when you take on the duties of others because you recognize a better way to complete their job. It is challenging for you to stand back and let others learn in their own way. They may perceive you as being dominant or forceful at times because of your authoritative air.
 

 
Because of your sensitivity, you can be easily hurt and offended; but you are seldom downcast for long, for you have the analysis to push past resentments.
 

 
Settled conditions in the home and in business are necessary for confidence in creative expression. You are very imaginative and visionary and could excel in the arts, drama, or music, if given the training. You prefer to specialize in your creative activities, striving to perfect whatever you do.
 

 
The principal weakness of this name affects you mentally through worry that can lead to headaches, nervous problems, or nervous breakdowns in extreme cases.
 

Health Analysis

• Mental tension could result through worrying too much over your problems or the problems of others, with an adverse effect on your nervous system.