In 2025, 60 US girls were named Laurie, making it the 2,842nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 224 places from #3,066 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 53 girls named Laurie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #37, reached in 1960. The most girls given the name in a single year was 10,675, in 1962. For comparison, it was #2,539 in 2015 and #194 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Laurie in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 168,442 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 74,719 babies named Laurie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 505 US girls were named Laurie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Laurie ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,518 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Laura (804,390 babies since 1880), Lori (342,764 babies since 1880), Lorie (22,068 babies since 1880) and Lauri (11,246 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lauree, Laurrie and Laurea are summarised on this page.