Lory — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lory

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,258 babies named Lory between 1923 and 2022, spanning 100 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lory currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 106 babies received it in a single year. Lory is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 267 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lory performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 762 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Lory shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 220 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lory in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lory in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,258 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.