Lorry
Lorry was last recorded in 2013, when 6 babies were given it; 1,245 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorry by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorry?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,751, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
70 babies in 1960, the peak
Lorry peaked in 1960, when 70 girls were given it, #1,322 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #15,751 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,115 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,270 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,623 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,451 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,063 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,415 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,783 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,137 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,675 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 9 | #7,060 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,152 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,634 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,426 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,265 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,585 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,082 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,115 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,640 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,745 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,016 | 5 | #4,776 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,755 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 34 | #2,026 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,227 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,188 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,906 | 5 | #4,395 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,611 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,485 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,733 | 6 | #3,892 |
| 1960 | 70 | #1,322 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,733 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,668 | 11 | #2,592 |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,763 | 11 | #2,581 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,779 | 6 | #3,780 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,785 | 7 | #3,380 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,005 | 10 | #2,677 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,050 | 7 | #3,297 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,171 | 14 | #2,118 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,163 | 18 | #1,806 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,222 | 6 | #3,540 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,037 | 9 | #2,730 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,684 | 8 | #2,931 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,892 | 8 | #3,008 |
| 1946 | under 5 | 14 | #1,996 | |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,851 | 7 | #2,898 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,061 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,382 | 7 | #3,119 |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,747 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 6 | #3,338 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,832 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 8 | #2,808 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,857 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #3,955 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 7 | #3,171 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,329 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,546 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #4,009 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 5 | #4,160 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lorry a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,245 Americans recorded as Lorry, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lorry: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorry, and how old are they?
An estimated 972 Americans named Lorry and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 57 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,101 people named Lorry (947 women and girls, 154 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,044 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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 Lorry?
Lorry is a less common spelling of Lori: SSA has recorded 1,245 Lorry and 342,764 Lori since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 450,012 babies since 1880, Lorry is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 191 babies recorded by SSA was a Lorry (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 Lorry
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 Lorry and names like it
- Compare Lorry and LoriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLorry peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorry since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Lorry.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lorry alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.