Lari
Lari was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 879 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lari mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Lari is “a male given name, short for Ilari”
Shortened form of Ilari or otherwise of the same origin.
/ˈlɑri/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lari?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,794, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1959, the peak
Lari peaked in 1959, when 48 babies were given it (41 girls, #1,730 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #18,794 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,318 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,550 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,965 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,506 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,240 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,177 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,250 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,711 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,614 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | #12,350 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,193 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,526 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,071 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,825 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,644 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,856 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,584 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,392 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,957 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,177 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,329 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,397 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,006 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,262 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,867 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,228 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,771 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,551 | 16.6 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,377 | 17.8 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,752 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,527 | 14.5 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,486 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,274 | 15.9 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,444 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,660 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 34 | #2,005 | 17.3 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,899 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,823 | 19.3 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,730 | 20.3 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,814 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,385 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,424 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,299 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,647 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,875 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,296 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,390 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,326 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,069 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,583 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,720 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,531 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,248 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,027 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,999 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 879 Americans recorded as Lari, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lari, and how old are they?
An estimated 758 Americans named Lari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 50 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 889 people named Lari (775 women and girls, 114 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 794 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lari rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,025,822 babies since 1880, Lari is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,300 babies recorded by SSA was a Lari (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lari
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lari and names like it
- Compare Lari and LauraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLari peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lari since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Lari: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Lari.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lari alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.