Lori

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Laurie in NL Netherlands, ES Spain, MY Malaysia and 2 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●

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Lori is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name341K records spelled Lori4 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Löri, Lorí, Loṛi

• Spanish given name294K records spelled Lori52 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico, France

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

  Also written Lore, Loré, Lörë, Lo-Re, Löre

• German given name39K records spelled Lori5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, Canada

  Also written Lóri, Lórí, Lorî

• Hungarian given name8.2K records spelled Lori8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Slovenia, Finland

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Lóri, Ĺori, Löri, Lőri, Lorì

• Greek given name7.9K records spelled Lori6 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Laurie, Λορι, Làurie, Λωρη, Λώρη

• a separate given name4.8K records spelled Lori2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Lorì

62 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●

Lori 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, A female given name, popular in the US in the 1960s.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In German, mit i-Suffix oder lat. Genitiv, wohl zu Laurentius; 67 Träger.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

• Perhaps a respelling of Itahan Lauri.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Swiss; variant spelling of Lory.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 101 years between 1924–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Lori Martinb. 1947USAmerican film actress (1947-2010)
• Lori Singerb. 1957USAmerican actress and classical musician
• Lori Robinsonb. 1959USCorporate board member and retired United States Air Force General
• Lori Lightfootb. 1962USMayor of Chicago from 2019 to 2023
• Lori Pettyb. 1963USAmerican actress
• Lori McNeilb. 1963USAmerican tennis player
• Lori Loughlinb. 1964USAmerican actress (born 1964)
• Lori Alanb. 1966USAmerican actress
• Lori Livelyb. 1966USAmerican actress
• Lori McKennab. 1968USAmerican musician

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 744 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lori?

We estimate roughly 334 thousand people bear Lori (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Lori have the most bearers?

We estimate about 299 thousand people bear Lori in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lori.

How common is Lori compared with other names?

In the United States, Lori is the 82nd most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Lori a male or female name?

Lori 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 Lori mean?

Recorded meaning: Pet form of Lorraine or variant of pLaurie.