Lauri
Lauri was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,611 among girls’ names; 11,246 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,700 Americans named Lauri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 56 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lauri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lauri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lauri is “a less common spelling of Laurie, a diminutive of the female given name Laura.”
Borrowed from Dzongkha ལའུ་རི་ (la’u ri).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lauri?
#12,611 among girls’ names, 2025
Lauri entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,611 in 2025.
717 babies in 1961, the peak
Lauri peaked in 1961, when 717 girls were given it, #356 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,611 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,995 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,636 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,477 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,713 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,703 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,030 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,157 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,628 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,928 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #14,691 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,813 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,014 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,632 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,797 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,328 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,632 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,469 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,514 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,530 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,100 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,104 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,572 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,874 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,770 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,256 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,736 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,536 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,464 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,590 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,152 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,127 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,873 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 72 | #1,614 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 75 | #1,574 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 105 | #1,245 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 95 | #1,319 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 120 | #1,093 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 126 | #1,048 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 136 | #945 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 178 | #789 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 181 | #768 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 234 | #643 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 281 | #582 | 0.18 |
| 1971 | 350 | #524 | 0.21 |
| 1970 | 394 | #503 | 0.23 |
| 1969 | 407 | #478 | 0.24 |
| 1968 | 366 | #509 | 0.22 |
| 1967 | 450 | #446 | 0.27 |
| 1966 | 470 | #434 | 0.28 |
| 1965 | 509 | #415 | 0.29 |
| 1964 | 626 | #384 | 0.33 |
| 1963 | 631 | #384 | 0.33 |
| 1962 | 679 | #362 | 0.35 |
| 1961 | 717 | #356 | 0.36 |
| 1960 | 706 | #364 | 0.35 |
| 1959 | 539 | #405 | 0.27 |
| 1958 | 431 | #460 | 0.21 |
| 1957 | 390 | #483 | 0.19 |
| 1956 | 326 | #520 | 0.16 |
| 1955 | 206 | #652 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 189 | #679 | 0.10 |
| 1953 | 147 | #753 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 115 | #860 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 87 | #1,003 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 48 | #1,327 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,460 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,045 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,591 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,995 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,536 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,251 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,008 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,137 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lauri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,246 Americans recorded as Lauri, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lauri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lauri, and how old are they?
9,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 11,246 Americans ever recorded as Lauri. The median Lauri alive today is 62 years old; half are between 56 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 10,367 people named Lauri (10,181 women and girls, 186 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,098 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,990 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,040 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 533 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 76 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 37 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Lauri born?
The states with the most babies named Lauri are California, New York and Michigan, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,258 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 855 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 714 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 689 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 493 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 455 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 407 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 357 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 355 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Washington | 337 | not ranked | 1.9× |
Where Lauri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lauri is most over-represented in Utah: since 1912 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lauri with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,018,565 babies since 1880, Lauri is the fourth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 1,289 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Lauri
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 Lauri and names like it
- Compare Lauri and LauraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLauri peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lauri since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Lauri.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lauri alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.