Girl

Laurie

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#2,842
60 girls
2015
#2,539
rank
1950
#194
rank

Laurie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #37 in 1960.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #37 in 1960; #2,842 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Laurie in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#2,842 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #37.

Babies in 2025
60
Since 1880
168,442
Years on record
142

Babies named Laurie, every year since 1880

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Girls

Laurie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 girls in 2025. Peak: #37 in 1960 · most girls in one year: 10,675 (1962).

About the name Laurie

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.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Lauree (756), Laurrie (102), Laurea (17).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Laurie in the open dataset we use.

Laurie is listed as a nickname for Laura, Laurel, Lauren, Lauryn, Lorelei.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Laurie by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Pennsylvania5#1,518#1,183
New York7#1,753#2,401
California9#2,199#3,736
Florida5#2,339#1,318

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202560#2,842——
202453#3,066——
202338#3,952——
202251#3,195——
202151#3,189——
202044#3,474——
201949#3,255——
201856#2,949——
201755#2,996——
201648#3,359——
201571#2,539——
201456#3,030——
201368#2,618——
201241#3,826——
201149#3,334——
201062#2,823——
200957#3,026——
200880#2,406——
200769#2,666——
200691#2,140——
200597#1,977——
200476#2,301——
200389#2,026——
200288#1,997——
200198#1,813——
200099#1,770——
1999118#1,470——
1998137#1,302——
1997146#1,228——
1996135#1,283——
1995166#1,077——
1994196#949——
1993200#947——
1992269#770——
1991314#684——
1990345#6495#8,942
1989448#521——
1988476#478——
1987519#431——
1986591#391——
1985779#311——
1984817#291——
1983952#2476#5,922
19821,185#2206#6,078
19811,224#21511#3,752
19801,335#1956#5,944
19791,581#1766#5,773
19781,613#1699#4,036
19771,765#1537#4,908
19762,038#13713#3,025
19752,284#12511#3,345
19742,555#11617#2,415
19732,897#10619#2,179
19723,227#9814#2,605
19713,749#9616#2,424
19704,392#8818#2,177
19694,627#7916#2,188
19684,342#7923#1,669
19674,921#7216#2,002
19665,667#6323#1,636
19656,533#6027#1,498
19647,832#5930#1,455
19639,276#4737#1,293
196210,675#4231#1,413
196110,435#4335#1,360
196010,143#3730#1,470
19597,535#5633#1,374
19586,734#7025#1,573
19576,543#7324#1,657
19566,207#7632#1,370
19554,954#9126#1,526
19544,290#9823#1,615
19533,686#10330#1,393
19523,271#11531#1,362
19512,353#13924#1,546
19501,391#19437#1,196
19491,103#22441#1,104
1948805#27230#1,338
1947789#27345#1,089
1946769#26130#1,289
1945592#28529#1,237
1944361#37033#1,163
1943258#45932#1,232
1942232#48634#1,205
1941178#52126#1,320
1940135#60019#1,602
1939137#57431#1,181
193899#69531#1,187
193782#75134#1,137
193675#78133#1,155
193568#83627#1,314
193471#80045#950
193341#1,09230#1,218
193252#98232#1,210
193144#1,06420#1,618
193065#90134#1,226
192950#1,03728#1,359
192848#1,09131#1,314
192756#1,03130#1,361
192641#1,20744#1,056
192536#1,33136#1,193
192434#1,42146#1,051
192346#1,13737#1,187
192245#1,14823#1,618
192144#1,15932#1,309
192049#1,06627#1,445
191932#1,38428#1,371
191847#1,06827#1,390
191743#1,08829#1,283
191641#1,10631#1,191
191538#1,10824#1,391
191428#1,16218#1,470
191322#1,20319#1,193
191213#1,57418#1,124
191114#1,267——
191018#1,0448#1,262
190911#1,3337#1,220
190817#9875#1,509
190712#1,1766#1,275
190611#1,194——
19056#1,814——
19045#2,025——
19037#1,507——
19029#1,2675#1,234
19016#1,5715#1,137
190013#1,08111#820
18998#1,2385#1,142
18985#1,829——
18977#1,325——
189612#9786#1,054
189512#959——
18945#1,595——
18937#1,2429#738
18928#1,130——
189112#822——
18898#991——
18888#996——
18879#823——
18867#9486#911
18855#1,124——
18848#818——
18825#976——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).