Meaning not yet researched.
Lori: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 118 in 2025. Its best rank was #8 in 1963.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #8 in 1963; #1,726 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lori in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,726 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1963, at #8.
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Lori: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 118 girls in 2025. Peak: #8 in 1963 · most girls in one year: 23,899 (1963).
In 2025, 118 US girls were named Lori, making it the 1,726th most common girls’ name of the year, down 199 places from #1,527 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 141 girls named Lori in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #8, reached in 1963. That year also had the most girls given the name: 23,899. For comparison, it was #1,597 in 2015 and #617 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lori in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 6 babies. In all, 342,764 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 176,972 babies named Lori.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,371 US girls were named Lori; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 165. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,621 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lori ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #739 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), Laurie (168,442 babies since 1880), Lora (52,484 babies since 1880) and Lorie (22,068 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lourie, Lorey and Lorea are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lourie (575), Lorey (265), Lorea (190), Lurie (123), Loriah (76), Luria (69), Louri (59), Louria (17), Lorii (16), Lorria (16).
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.
No nicknames listed for Lori in the open dataset we use.
Lori is listed as a nickname for Laura, Lorelei.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 6 | #739 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #879 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #900 | #1,338 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,095 | #873 |
| California | 21 | #1,212 | #1,367 |
| New York | 8 | #1,599 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,812 | #1,676 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 2024 | 141 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 2023 | 157 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 2022 | 165 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 2021 | 128 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 2018 | 140 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 2017 | 129 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 2016 | 144 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 2015 | 135 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 2014 | 129 | #1,656 | — | — |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 2009 | 135 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 2008 | 142 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2007 | 179 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 2006 | 135 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 2005 | 226 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 2004 | 189 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 2003 | 207 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 2002 | 183 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 2001 | 233 | #952 | — | — |
| 2000 | 255 | #865 | — | — |
| 1999 | 284 | #777 | — | — |
| 1998 | 308 | #718 | — | — |
| 1997 | 304 | #707 | — | — |
| 1996 | 345 | #649 | — | — |
| 1995 | 394 | #584 | — | — |
| 1994 | 524 | #475 | — | — |
| 1993 | 556 | #451 | — | — |
| 1992 | 642 | #400 | — | — |
| 1991 | 736 | #352 | — | — |
| 1990 | 852 | #323 | — | — |
| 1989 | 986 | #274 | — | — |
| 1988 | 1,090 | #241 | 7 | #6,186 |
| 1987 | 1,171 | #229 | 9 | #4,798 |
| 1986 | 1,466 | #183 | 5 | #7,398 |
| 1985 | 1,791 | #158 | 5 | #7,161 |
| 1984 | 2,079 | #143 | 8 | #4,810 |
| 1983 | 2,520 | #113 | 13 | #3,344 |
| 1982 | 2,978 | #98 | 9 | #4,445 |
| 1981 | 3,479 | #91 | 11 | #3,759 |
| 1980 | 4,085 | #76 | 15 | #3,043 |
| 1979 | 4,432 | #69 | 14 | #3,102 |
| 1978 | 4,631 | #60 | 22 | #2,172 |
| 1977 | 5,072 | #57 | 11 | #3,506 |
| 1976 | 5,849 | #47 | 24 | #2,034 |
| 1975 | 6,650 | #39 | 21 | #2,175 |
| 1974 | 7,960 | #30 | 30 | #1,641 |
| 1973 | 8,472 | #28 | 29 | #1,635 |
| 1972 | 9,434 | #28 | 28 | #1,666 |
| 1971 | 11,829 | #25 | 42 | #1,303 |
| 1970 | 13,448 | #23 | 40 | #1,325 |
| 1969 | 14,020 | #20 | 39 | #1,273 |
| 1968 | 13,126 | #22 | 23 | #1,675 |
| 1967 | 13,564 | #24 | 33 | #1,328 |
| 1966 | 14,671 | #21 | 44 | #1,119 |
| 1965 | 15,695 | #19 | 43 | #1,152 |
| 1964 | 18,624 | #15 | 38 | #1,274 |
| 1963 | 23,899 | #8 | 48 | #1,111 |
| 1962 | 22,395 | #11 | 49 | #1,100 |
| 1961 | 21,876 | #14 | 48 | #1,143 |
| 1960 | 18,690 | #20 | 47 | #1,146 |
| 1959 | 15,032 | #27 | 29 | #1,485 |
| 1958 | 13,032 | #30 | 25 | #1,576 |
| 1957 | 8,964 | #45 | 20 | #1,820 |
| 1956 | 7,145 | #66 | 14 | #2,221 |
| 1955 | 4,976 | #89 | 5 | #4,181 |
| 1954 | 3,440 | #121 | 5 | #4,153 |
| 1953 | 1,792 | #173 | — | — |
| 1952 | 972 | #252 | — | — |
| 1951 | 531 | #347 | — | — |
| 1950 | 186 | #617 | — | — |
| 1949 | 178 | #620 | — | — |
| 1948 | 136 | #725 | — | — |
| 1947 | 105 | #857 | — | — |
| 1946 | 88 | #889 | — | — |
| 1945 | 53 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1944 | 55 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1942 | 53 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,061 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,797 | — | — |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,145 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,743 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,302 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,449 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,797 | — | — |
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).