Lorie
Feminine · “laurel”
Lorie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 21,964 girls against 104 boys since 1880.
Lorie is a laurel wreath at three removes. Laura comes from the tree the Romans crowned their victors with, and Lori and Lorie are the twentieth-century American clippings of it.
How old is the name Lorie?
Lorie first appears in US birth records in 1908 — 117 years ago. The typical Lorie alive today was born around 1965, making them about 60 years old. About 19,500 people named Lorie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lorie most popular?
Lorie peaked in 1963, reaching #241 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 10,676 places below that high. See the whole 1963 chart.
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Where it comes from
From laurus to Lorie
The story of Lorie
Laura was made famous by Petrarch, who addressed three hundred and sixty-six poems to a woman of that name over a lifetime, and it has been in continuous European use since. It rose sharply in twentieth-century America, and the short forms followed: Lori, Lorie, Lorri, Lorrie. Lorie belongs to the -ie wave and peaked in the mid-1960s, a step behind Lori itself.
Meaning
laurel
Through Laura, from the Latin laurus, 'laurel'. The laurel wreath was the Roman symbol of victory and of poetic achievement, which is why the word survives in 'laureate'. The meaning has never been in doubt.
How the name formed
- laurus
- Laura
- Lori
- Lorie
Related forms: Laura · Laura · Lori · Lorrie
Pronouncing Lorie
LOR-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. All four spellings are said identically.
Nicknames for Lorie
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
- 1908
- Most girls named
- 19631,306 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #241reached in 1963
- Change vs 2023
- −27.3%8 in 2025, from 11
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.
Lorie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Laura in Italian — related form
- Laura in Spanish — related form
- Lori in English — spelling variant
- Lorrie in English — spelling variant
Lories among us
people named Lorie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Lorie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lorie
- #10917
- Lorie on the 2025 chart
- #945
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lorie went to 8 girls in 2025, but Lorrie 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 — 9,972 places above the chart.
- Lorie8
- Lorrie7
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Lorie 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 Sharyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lorie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sharyn climbed just as high around 1945, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sharyn's path sketches the road Lorie is walking now.
Lorie 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
Lorie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lorie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Laura stands behind it with a transparent meaning and a great literary history.
- The -ie ending reads warmer than -i without changing the sound.
- Bright and easy in every English accent.
- Four spellings were in use at once and Lori is much the commonest.
- It is closely dated to the 1960s and 1970s.
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Feminine · #10917 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Lories are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 19,500 people named Lorie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lorie?
- Lorie is the most-used spelling in US records — 8 of the 15 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Lorrie.
- How popular is the name Lorie in 2025?
- Lorie ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lorie?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Lorie — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lorie with classmates?
- Lorie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Lorie
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