Laurie

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Laurie is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Laurence; found as Laurie in 1655.

rarermore common
  • CACanada1 in 497◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 808
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈334K ●

across 8 countries

#404 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
515 ●

6.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.1K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

LoriLatin · English●3.5M records
לוריHebrew · Hebrew●4.1K records
ЛориCyrillic · Russian●130 records
로리Hangul · Korean●16 records
โลรThai · Thai●4 records
ሎሪEthiopic · Amharic●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lori in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 18 more, Lorri in FR France, BR Brazil and Lowry in DE Germany, NZ New Zealand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Diminutive of Laurence; found as Laurie in 1655. Variant form of Lawrie/Lowry.

Sources 1

  • Scottish Surnames

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Laurie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#82299,1965.2M rec.1 in 1.1K299KLori515
GB United Kingdom#141257,582255K rec.—1.6KLori193
CA Canada#69166,980154K rec.—29Lori223
AU Australia#25888,24787K rec.—99Lori181
IT Italy#27133,62534K rec.—1Lori69
FR France—29,715△341 rec.1 in 2.3K30KLorri19
IL Israel#62515,57816K rec.—691Lori42
PH Philippines—13,50115K rec.——Lori57
RU Russia—13,49114K rec.——Lori42
EG Egypt#5469,4069.1K rec.——Lori17
IE Ireland#1797,98813K rec.—99Lori75
SG Singapore#827,40012K rec.——Lori26

Roughly 299K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1.1K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.1M75%
  • French241K9%
  • 150K5%
  • Spanish72K3%
  • Korean23K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,117,90875%
French240,6429%
149,8845%
Spanish71,6983%
Korean22,5521%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Laurie is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name360K records spelled Laurie9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Laurié, Lauriê, Lau'Rie, Lãurie, Láurie

  • a separate given name168K records spelled Laurie2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Lauriê

  • Greek given name4.4K records spelled Laurie6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Lori, Λορι, Làurie, Λωρη, Λώρη

68 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Laurie is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, From the laurel tree; crowned with laurel

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • habitational name from a place in Cantal, derived from Latin laurus ‘laurel’, with the suffix -ea.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In French, diminutif de Laura/Laurent, du latin laurus « laurier ». Fête: 10 août, saint Laurent.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, French diminutive from Latin laurus « laurel ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Little Lawrence.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K19001950200011K · 1962

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Laurie in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1882–2025
Yearrecords
18825
18848
18855
18867
18879
18888
18898
189112
18928
18939
18945
189512
189612
18977
18985
18998
190013
19016
19029
19037
19045
19056
190611
190712
190817
190911
191018
191114
191218
191322
191428
191538
191641
191743
191847
191932
192049
192144
192245
192346
192446
192536
192644
192756
192848
192950
193065
193144
193252
193341
193471
193568
193675
193782
193899
1939137
1940135
1941178
1942232
1943258
1944361
1945592
1946769
1947789
1948805
19491,103
19501,391
19512,353
19523,271
19533,686
19544,290
19554,954
19566,207
19576,543
19586,734
19597,535
196010,143
196110,435
196210,675
19639,276
19647,832
19656,533
19665,667
19674,921
19684,342
19694,627
19704,392
19713,749
19723,227
19732,897
19742,555
19752,284
19762,038
19771,765
19781,613
19791,581
19801,335
19811,224
19821,185
1983952
1984817
1985779
1986591
1987519
1988476
1989448
1990345
1991314
1992269
1993200
1994196
1995166
1996135
1997146
1998137
1999118
200099
200198
200288
200389
200476
200597
200691
200769
200880
200957
201062
201149
201241
201368
201456
201571
201648
201755
201856
201949
202044
202151
202251
202338
202453
202560

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 142 years between 1882–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Laurie Main, b. 1922Laurie Anderson, b. 1947Laurie MacDonald, b. 1953Laurie David, b. 1958Laurie Holden, b. 1969Lol Crawley, b. 1974Laurie Penny, b. 1986Laurie Nunn, b. 1986Adele, b. 1988Laurie Hernandez, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 88 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Laurie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020144K#390
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202430K#2,864
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.5K#9,234
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.4K#8,815
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203K#10,142
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—859#2,304
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020730#390
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022319—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—308#18,217
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—257#21,701
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—75#6,510
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—70—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 777 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Laurie?
We estimate roughly 334 thousand people bear Laurie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Laurie have the most bearers?
We estimate about 299 thousand people bear Laurie in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lori.
How common is Laurie compared with other names?
In the United States, Laurie is the 82nd most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Laurie a male or female name?
Laurie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Laurie mean?
Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Laurence; found as Laurie in 1655.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Laurie” — the 82nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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