Lauralei
Lauralei was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 121 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lauralei by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lauralei?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,620, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 2010, the peak
Lauralei peaked in 2010, when 9 girls were given it, #11,807 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,620 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,752 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,778 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,377 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,262 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,453 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,699 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,818 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,357 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,807 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #13,141 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,586 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,782 | 3.6 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,227 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,924 | 4.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,721 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,798 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lauralei a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lauralei has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lauralei: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lauralei, and how old are they?
An estimated 120 Americans named Lauralei and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 168 people named Lauralei (166 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 95 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,922 babies since 1880, Lauralei is the third most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 25 babies recorded by SSA was a Lauralei (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 Lauralei
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 Lauralei and names like it
- Compare Lauralei and LauraleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLauralei peaked in 2010.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Lauralei.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lauralei alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.