Lorri

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Lori in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 18 more, Laurie in NL Netherlands, ES Spain, MY Malaysia and 2 more 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 23 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◐

Lorri is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Polish given name74 records spelled Lorri23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Lorrie, Lorry, Лорри, Lorre, Лоррі

54 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●

Lorri is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Acronym of Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager, a long-focal-length imager designed for high resolution and responsivity at visible wavelengths.

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

• In Welsh, lorry, truck

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

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) — 53 years between 1942–1996. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Lorri Whitingb. 1927AUAustralian artist (1927–2019)
• Lorri Neilsen Glennb. 1947CACanadian poet and ethnographer

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 · 63 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lorri?

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

In which country does Lorri have the most bearers?

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

How common is Lorri compared with other names?

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

Is Lorri a male or female name?

Lorri 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 Lorri mean?

Recorded meaning: Variant of Lori, short form of Lorraine or Laura.