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Laurie
Pronounced /ˈlɒ.ri/
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1924 · #1051
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:52 in 2024 (#3,088)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No boys were recorded as Laurie in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1924 with 46 babies, ranked #1051.
- It first shows up in the records in 1886.
- 1,954 boys 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
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0Gen Z1997–12
- 0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 505 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 549 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 594 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 241 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 28 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 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.