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Hah, Rence is so unexpected to my ear. In my American accent, the name Lawrence sounds like LOR-intz, with a lot of emphasis on the first syllable and the second almost elided, without a strong vowel sound. My guess is that it's just more intuitive to come up with a nickname from the emphasized syllable.

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Lance was popular in the 60s-70s, but the one-syllable names that sound like Lance (like Vance and Chance) have never been as popular.