Laurie
Feminine · “from the laurel”
Laurie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 166,488 girls against 1,954 boys since 1880. See Laurie as a boy name
The most famous Laurie in American fiction is a boy. He is the neighbor in Little Women, christened Theodore Laurence, who hates his own first name and takes the shortened surname instead — and generations of readers have met the name attached to him before they met it attached to anybody else.
How old is the name Laurie?
Laurie first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Laurie alive today was born around 1962, making them about 63 years old. About 146,000 people named Laurie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laurie most popular?
Laurie peaked in 1960, reaching #37 nationally. Today it ranks #2822, 2,785 places below that high. See the whole 1960 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Laurus to Laurie
The story of Laurie
The plant was chosen for crowns because of what it does not do. Bay laurel leaves keep their color and their shape when cut, drying without wilting or curling, so a wreath made of them looks the same at the end of a triumph as at the beginning — which matters if the ceremony runs all day and the man wearing it is being looked at throughout. Everything else available wilts within hours. The symbolic weight the plant later acquired is genuine, but the practical reason it was picked in the first place is that it stays put.
Meaningscholars disagree
from the laurel, or from a place of laurels
The name shortens both a woman's name from the laurel and a man's name from a Roman town, and those two are not the same word. Which is behind any given bearer depends on the family.
How the name formed
- Laurus
- Laura
- Laurie
Pronouncing Laurie
LOR-ee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. Lori and Lory are said identically; the spelling difference is entirely visual.
Nicknames for Laurie
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
- 1882
- Most girls named
- 196210,675 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #37reached in 1960
- Change vs 2022
- +17.6%60 in 2025, from 51
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.
Laurie in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania, California, Florida.
Lauries among us
people named Laurie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 26,788 born in 2025 was named Laurie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Geraldine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Laurie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Geraldine climbed just as high around 1931, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Geraldine's path sketches the road Laurie is walking now.
Laurie 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
Where Laurie is headed
Laurie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Laurie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Laurie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is short, warm and completely easy on first hearing.
- It works across the sexes and has real literary precedent for doing so.
- The sound is settled even though the spelling is not.
- Lori and Lory are both in use and the spelling gets queried.
- Its peak was large enough and recent enough to date the name.
- The record holds a few boys as well, and the boy is much the smaller side.
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Feminine · #2822 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Lauries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 146,000 people named Laurie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Laurie in 2025?
- Laurie ranks #2822 among US girl names in 2025, with 60 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Laurie?
- About 1 in every 26,788 US girls born in 2025 was named Laurie — 60 in all.
- Will my child share the name Laurie with classmates?
- Laurie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Laurie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Lya#2822 · Roxanna#2822 · Kensington#2822 · Maybelle#2822 · Hayat#2822 · Seven#2822 · Livie#2822 · Haniya#2822
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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