Lorrie

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, 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 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◐

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

• Polish given name1.1K records spelled Lorrie23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Lorri, Lorry, Лорри, Lorre, Лоррі

45 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●

Lorrie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

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

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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 1917–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Lorrie Dunington-Grubbb. 1877GBEnglish landscape architect
• Lorrie Hunterb. 1900NZNew Zealand politician (1900-1990)
• Lorrie Ottob. 1919USAmerican writer (1919-2010)
• Lorrie Collinsb. 1942USAmerican musician and actor (1942-2018)
• Lorrie Wilmotb. 1943ZASouth African cricketer (1943-2004)
• Lorrie Mooreb. 1957USAmerican writer
• Lorrie Cranorb. 1971USAmerican academic
• Lorrie Fairb. 1978USAmerican soccer player
• Lorrie PapadopoulosCACanadian actress
• Lorrie BrownUSdirector of student & staff engagement, IUPUI

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 · 135 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lorrie?

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

In which country does Lorrie have the most bearers?

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

How common is Lorrie compared with other names?

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

Is Lorrie a male or female name?

Lorrie 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 Lorrie mean?

Recorded meaning: Dated form of lorry.