Lauri
Feminine · “from Laurentum”
Lauri is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 11,063 girls against 183 boys since 1880.
Lawrence does not mean laurel. It means from Laurentum, a town in Latium that the Romans said was named for its laurels — so the name is a place, and the tree is one step further back. The saint everybody knows was Laurentius, the man from that town.
How old is the name Lauri?
Lauri first appears in US birth records in 1941 — 84 years ago. The typical Lauri alive today was born around 1964, making them about 61 years old. About 9,900 people named Lauri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lauri most popular?
Lauri peaked in 1961, reaching #355 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 11,577 places below that high. See the whole 1961 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Laurentum to Lauri
The story of Lauri
Laurentum barely survives — it was an ancient Latin town near the coast, more important in legend than in fact, and Virgil makes it the seat of the king Aeneas has to deal with. The adjective built on it became a Roman name and then a Christian one, and by the fourth century belonged to a deacon of Rome who was executed under Valerian. The gridiron story attached to him later. The name spread across Europe and produced Lorenzo, Laurent, Lars, Lauri and Lorcan, and English took the Laura family as its feminine, which is a separate line rather than a translation. Lauri sits between the two: a woman's pet form here and a man's full name in Finland.
Meaning
from Laurentum
Latin Laurentius, of Laurentum, a city south of Rome. The town's own name was connected by Roman writers with laurus, the laurel, though that may itself be a folk etymology. Lauri is the American pet form of Laura or Laurie; in Finland the same four letters are a man's name, the Finnish form of Lawrence.
How the name formed
- Laurentum
- Laurentius
- Laura
- Lauri
Related forms: Lauri · Lars · Laura
Pronouncing Lauri
LAW-ree
Two syllables, stress on the first. The Finnish Lauri has a different first vowel, closer to LOW-ri, with the ow of how. Lauri, Laurie and Lori are identical in American speech.
Nicknames for Lauri
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
- 1941
- Most girls named
- 1961717 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #355reached in 1961
- Change vs 2022
- 0.0%7 in 2025, 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.
Lauri in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lauri in Finnish — related form
- Lars in Swedish — related form
- Laura in Italian — related form
Lauris among us
people named Lauri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Lauri
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lauri
- #11932
- Lauri on the 2025 chart
- #945
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lauri went to 7 girls in 2025, but Laury is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 15, which makes it the 945th most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,987 places above the chart.
- Laury8
- Lauri7
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Lauri itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Philomena test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lauri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Philomena climbed just as high around 1915, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Philomena's path sketches the road Lauri is walking now.
Lauri sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Lauri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lauri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Latin origin traceable to a named place.
- It serves either child, and the records show both.
- Two syllables that everyone can say after hearing them once.
- Laurie and Lori are both commoner spellings of the same sound.
- In Finland it is a man's name and a very ordinary one, which matters on international paperwork.
- It is strongly represented among older generations and places the name in the last century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lauris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,900 people named Lauri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lauri?
- Lauri is one of 2 recorded spellings. Laury is the more common one — 8 births in 2025 against 7 for Lauri.
- How popular is the name Lauri in 2025?
- Lauri ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lauri?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Lauri — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lauri with classmates?
- Lauri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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