Laree
Feminine
Laree is five letters and two of them are doing only stress work. The doubled e at the end exists to tell a reader that the weight falls on the second syllable, which English has no other way of indicating, and without it the name would be read with the emphasis at the front. The rest is a prefix and a sound.
How old is the name Laree?
Laree first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Laree alive today was born around 1959, making them about 66 years old. About 1,000 people named Laree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laree most popular?
Laree peaked in 1936, reaching #1593 nationally. See the whole 1936 chart.
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Where it comes from
From An American prefix in wide use to Laree
Our story of Laree
English has no stress mark and needs one badly. Other languages solve the problem: Spanish writes an accent when the stress falls anywhere unexpected, Italian marks final stress, Greek marks it everywhere. English marks nothing at all, which is manageable for a vocabulary everybody already knows and hopeless for names, which arrive cold. American naming responded by inventing marks of its own out of ordinary letters: a doubled vowel at the end, a final -ay, a silent e, an accent nobody types. None of them is taught, none is written down in any style guide, and all of them work. Between them, thousands of families independently solved a problem the language has had since it stopped using Latin, and got no credit for it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No language supplies a source. The front is an American prefix with no lexical content and the back is a syllable rather than a word. Reference works offering a French or Latin derivation are reading the shape. The accurate description is a name built entirely from two pieces, one of which carries rhythm and the other of which carries stress.
How the name formed
- An American prefix in wide use
- A stressed final syllable needing a mark
- A doubled vowel supplying one
- Laree in the registers from the nineteen thirties
Pronouncing Laree
luh-REE
Two syllables with the stress firmly at the back, which the doubled e exists to guarantee. Written with a single e the name would be read LAIR, which is a different name entirely and not one anybody intended.
Nicknames for Laree
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1913
- Most girls named
- 195932 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1593reached in 1936
- Change vs 2011
- −28.6%5 in 2018, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Larees among us
people named Laree are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Laree sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The spelling tells a stranger exactly where the stress goes, which most English names do not.
- The back stress gives it a lift that few names of its period have.
- Ree is a clean modern short form that is not shared with a crowd.
- There is no meaning to give, and the honest answer describes the mechanics.
- It will be written Larae, Laray or Larie by people taking it from speech.
- It is firmly of the earlier twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Larees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Laree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Laree in 2025?
- Laree is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Laree will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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