Lory
Lory was last recorded in 2022, when 8 babies were given it; 2,525 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Lory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 50 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lory?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,817, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
106 babies in 1961, the peak
Lory peaked in 1961, when 106 girls were given it, #1,065 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8 | #11,817 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,742 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,234 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,909 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,921 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,432 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,024 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,310 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,836 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,097 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 9 | #11,453 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,373 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,045 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,627 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,382 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,564 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,412 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,552 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,975 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,210 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,512 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,131 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,507 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,825 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,635 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,779 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,116 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,468 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,453 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,072 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,400 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,391 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,380 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,093 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,374 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,828 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,722 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,493 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,463 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,008 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,810 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,899 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,645 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,868 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 73 | #1,427 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 54 | #1,641 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,640 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 63 | #1,389 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 60 | #1,424 | 5 | #4,305 |
| 1965 | 62 | #1,400 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 81 | #1,227 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 90 | #1,155 | 12 | #2,487 |
| 1962 | 106 | #1,052 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 106 | #1,065 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 90 | #1,148 | 8 | #3,235 |
| 1959 | 73 | #1,258 | 8 | #3,175 |
| 1958 | 91 | #1,108 | 12 | #2,453 |
| 1957 | 72 | #1,241 | 14 | #2,244 |
| 1956 | 81 | #1,153 | 12 | #2,442 |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,655 | 5 | #4,184 |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,359 | 7 | #3,329 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,577 | 7 | #3,298 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,843 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,592 | 13 | #2,204 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,498 | 12 | #2,280 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,105 | 8 | #2,925 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,901 | 9 | #2,713 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,251 | 6 | #3,595 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,846 | 9 | #2,627 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,035 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,267 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,841 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 6 | #3,429 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 7 | #3,028 | |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,057 | 6 | #3,339 |
| 1937 | under 5 | 5 | #3,834 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #3,044 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 7 | #3,141 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,993 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #3,953 | |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,145 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 8 | #3,139 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 8 | #3,258 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,547 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,566 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 8 | #3,293 | |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,798 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,378 | 5 | #4,619 |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,726 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 9 | #3,100 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 7 | #3,425 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 5 | #4,161 |
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 Lory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,525 Americans recorded as Lory, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lory, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 2,525 Americans ever recorded as Lory. The median Lory alive today is 61 years old; half are between 50 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 2,670 people named Lory (2,486 women and girls, 184 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 26 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 963 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 702 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 239 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 115 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 29 |
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 Lory born?
The states with the most babies named Lory are California, Florida and New York, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 231 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 86 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 85 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 68 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 53 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 27 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Lory with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Lory?
Lory is a less common spelling of Lori: SSA has recorded 2,525 Lory and 342,764 Lori since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 434,048 babies since 1880, Lory is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 184 babies recorded by SSA was a Lory (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 Lory
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Tonnie | 1,157 |
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 Lory and names like it
- Compare Lory and LoriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLory peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lory since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Lory.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lory alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.