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Laurie
Pronounced /ˈlɒ.ri/
Rank in 2024
#3,088
Born in 2024
52
Peak year
1962 · #42
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 52 girls were named Laurie, about 1 in every 31,023.
- It peaked in 1962 with 10,674 babies, ranked #42.
- It first shows up in the records in 1882.
- 166,428 girls have been named Laurie since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Laurie per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- 2.8Boomers1946–64
- 2.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 731 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 2,588 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Boomers: 98,788 babies, 2.76 per 1,000. Gen X: 53,530 babies, 2.10 per 1,000. Millennials: 8,616 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,397 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 639 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
The given names are clippings of Laurence, Lawrence, Laura, or Lauren + -ie, all ultimately from Latin laurus (“laurel”). The surname is from the diminutive of Lawrence. The city in Missouri was named by its residents in 1961 after L. M. and William (Buster) Laurie, who in 1937 bought a building in the area and operated the Laurie Market, because of the goodwill generated by the family store over the years.
- A unisex given name.
- A diminutive of the male given names Laurence and Lawrence; alternative form of Lawrie; a pet form of the male given name Laurence or Lawrence.
- A diminutive of the female given name Laura; popular as a female given name in the US in the mid-twentieth century.
- A diminutive of the female given name Lauren.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈlɒ.ri/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Laurie, CC BY-SA 4.0.