Lary
Lary was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 1,577 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,645, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1946, the peak
Lary peaked in 1946, when 63 boys were given it, #832 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #13,645 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,866 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,595 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,665 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,018 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,412 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,237 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,347 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,494 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,913 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 9 | #4,433 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,926 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,940 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,608 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,823 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,533 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,714 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,163 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,718 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,454 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,294 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,272 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,579 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,464 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,929 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 24 | #1,588 | 13.8 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,704 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,756 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 20 | #1,826 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,723 | 10.8 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,181 | 21.3 |
| 1961 | 31 | #1,454 | 14.6 |
| 1960 | 48 | #1,135 | 22.5 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,204 | 19.7 |
| 1958 | 60 | #985 | 28.3 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,106 | 22.3 |
| 1956 | 58 | #980 | 27.4 |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,144 | 20.9 |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,128 | 21.6 |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,252 | 18.3 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,260 | 18.0 |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,160 | 20.7 |
| 1950 | 56 | #924 | 31.3 |
| 1949 | 55 | #937 | 31.0 |
| 1948 | 45 | #1,056 | 25.6 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,140 | 22.4 |
| 1946 | 63 | #832 | 38.8 |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,112 | 26.0 |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,013 | 30.8 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,132 | 25.9 |
| 1942 | 50 | #942 | 36.2 |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,142 | 27.7 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,147 | 29.3 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,132 | 29.8 |
| 1938 | 37 | #1,070 | 33.4 |
| 1937 | 40 | #1,008 | 37.5 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,570 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,881 | 14.4 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,666 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,161 | 12.1 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,748 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,074 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,452 | 6.4 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,550 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,977 | 5.4 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,322 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,097 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,364 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,060 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,969 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,256 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lary has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lary, and how old are they?
An estimated 897 Americans named Lary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 60 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,574 people named Lary (63 women and girls, 1,511 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,055 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Lary?
Lary is a less common spelling of Larry: SSA has recorded 1,577 Lary and 811,148 Larry since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 817,021 babies since 1880, Lary is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 226 babies recorded by SSA was a Lary (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 Lary
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 Lary and names like it
- Compare Lary and LarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sLary peaked in 1946.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lary since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Lary.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lary alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.