Lori
Lori was given to 118 girls in 2025, #1,726 among girls’ names; 342,764 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 304,000 Americans named Lori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 54 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lori mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lori is “a female given name, popular in the US in the 1960s.”
In some cases, a 20th century spelling variant of Laurie, from Laura. In other cases, a diminutive form of names such as Loretta and Lorraine.
/loɹ.i/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lori?
#1,726 among girls’ names, 2025
Lori fell from #1,597 in 2015 to #1,726 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 75.6 to 73.4 per million.
23,947 babies in 1963, the peak
Lori peaked in 1963, when 23,947 babies were given it (23,899 girls, #8 among girls’ names). The 118 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,726 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 141 | #1,527 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 157 | #1,424 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 165 | #1,391 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 128 | #1,634 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,672 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,675 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 140 | #1,551 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 129 | #1,670 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 144 | #1,557 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 135 | #1,597 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 129 | #1,656 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,788 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,949 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,754 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,837 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 135 | #1,654 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 142 | #1,601 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 179 | #1,355 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 135 | #1,592 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 226 | #1,058 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 189 | #1,189 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 207 | #1,072 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 183 | #1,137 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 233 | #951 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 255 | #864 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 284 | #776 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 308 | #718 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 304 | #707 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 345 | #649 | 0.20 |
| 1995 | 394 | #584 | 0.22 |
| 1994 | 524 | #475 | 0.29 |
| 1993 | 556 | #451 | 0.31 |
| 1992 | 642 | #400 | 0.35 |
| 1991 | 736 | #352 | 0.39 |
| 1990 | 852 | #323 | 0.45 |
| 1989 | 986 | #274 | 0.53 |
| 1988 | 1,090 | #241 | 0.61 |
| 1987 | 1,171 | #229 | 0.67 |
| 1986 | 1,466 | #183 | 0.85 |
| 1985 | 1,791 | #158 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 2,079 | #143 | 1.2 |
| 1983 | 2,520 | #113 | 1.5 |
| 1982 | 2,978 | #98 | 1.8 |
| 1981 | 3,479 | #91 | 2.1 |
| 1980 | 4,085 | #76 | 2.5 |
| 1979 | 4,432 | #69 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 4,631 | #60 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5,072 | #57 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5,849 | #47 | 4.0 |
| 1975 | 6,650 | #39 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 7,960 | #30 | 5.4 |
| 1973 | 8,472 | #28 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 9,434 | #28 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 11,829 | #25 | 7.1 |
| 1970 | 13,448 | #23 | 7.7 |
| 1969 | 14,020 | #20 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 13,126 | #22 | 8.0 |
| 1967 | 13,564 | #24 | 8.2 |
| 1966 | 14,671 | #21 | 8.7 |
| 1965 | 15,695 | #19 | 8.9 |
| 1964 | 18,624 | #15 | 9.8 |
| 1963 | 23,899 | #8 | 12.4 |
| 1962 | 22,395 | #11 | 11.4 |
| 1961 | 21,876 | #14 | 10.8 |
| 1960 | 18,690 | #20 | 9.2 |
| 1959 | 15,032 | #27 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 13,032 | #30 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 8,964 | #45 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 7,145 | #66 | 3.6 |
| 1955 | 4,976 | #89 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 3,440 | #121 | 1.8 |
| 1953 | 1,792 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 1952 | 972 | #252 | 0.52 |
| 1951 | 531 | #346 | 0.29 |
| 1950 | 186 | #616 | 0.11 |
| 1949 | 178 | #619 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 136 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 105 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 88 | #888 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 53 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 55 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,135 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 53 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,198 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,782 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,964 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,212 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,059 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,097 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,279 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,795 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,143 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,497 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,890 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,741 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,447 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,795 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lori has been given almost only to girls: 853 boys in 101 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lori, and how old are they?
304,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 342,764 Americans ever recorded as Lori. The median Lori alive today is 60 years old; half are between 54 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 299,419 people named Lori (299,196 women and girls, 223 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 314,277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 180 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 137,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 141,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 21,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,740 |
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 Lori born?
The states with the most babies named Lori are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 30,620 | #1,212 | 0.9× |
| New York | 25,896 | #1,599 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 24,234 | #900 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 21,626 | #1,095 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 19,029 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 18,071 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 14,966 | #2,812 | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 12,839 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Minnesota | 10,984 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Indiana | 10,962 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Lori is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lori is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1924 it was given 1.7 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 Lori 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 450,233 babies since 1880, Lori is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 118 of their 191 babies (62%), again the most given.
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 Lori
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 Lori and names like it
- Compare Lori and LoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLori peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lori since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Lori.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lori alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.