Lowry — boys' name

What the Data Says About Lowry

The Social Security Administration has registered 472 babies named Lowry between 1900 and 2021, spanning 122 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lowry currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1945, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Lowry is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 27 additional births since 1962.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lowry performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Lowry shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lowry in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lowry 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 472 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.