Lauree
Feminine
Lauree respells a short form of one of the oldest women's names in European poetry. The reason it is in European poetry at all is one man who saw somebody in a church, never spoke to her, and produced a body of work that set the pattern for love poetry for three hundred years.
How old is the name Lauree?
Lauree first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Lauree alive today was born around 1959, making them about 66 years old. About 600 people named Lauree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lauree most popular?
Lauree peaked in 1959, reaching #1951 nationally. See the whole 1959 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lauree
Petrarch described seeing Laura in a church in Avignon on a particular day, and wrote poems about her for the next twenty years, and then for another decade after she died. There are three hundred and sixty-six of them. Whether she was a real woman is argued about, though the balance of evidence says she was; what is not argued about is the effect, because the sequence established the vocabulary of European love poetry almost single-handedly, down to the individual images. Every sonneteer for the next three centuries is working in his shadow, including Shakespeare, who spends a good deal of his own sequence being rude about the conventions.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Laura comes from the Latin for a laurel and that reading is settled. This respelled short form is not documented and no reason for the ending has been recorded.
Pronouncing Lauree
LAW-ree
Two syllables with the stress in front. The doubled e says the same thing an ie or a y would.
Nicknames for Lauree
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
- 1914
- Most girls named
- 195933 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1951reached in 1959
- Change vs 1991
- −16.7%5 in 1993, from 6
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.
Laurees among us
people named Lauree 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
Lauree 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 sound is completely familiar, so it is never a puzzle to say.
- It is short on paper and quick to write.
- The ending makes it visually distinct from the standard spelling, which is its purpose.
- Laurie and Lori are both far commoner, so this spelling will be corrected regularly.
- The ending cannot be heard, so the spelling has to be given aloud every time.
- It reads as a short form to some people, so formal settings will ask what it stands for.
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Frequently asked
- How many Laurees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Lauree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lauree in 2025?
- Lauree is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lauree with classmates?
- Lauree will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More L names
The most-given names starting with L, all years combined.
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