Laurie
144,345 people in America carry this name — ranked #390 of 923.
Carried mostly by the Baby Boomers.
Say it LAW ree
2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part
Phonetic transcription
L AO1 R IY0 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.
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People counted 144,345 2020 Census
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Per 100,000 47.8 about 1 in 2,296 people
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As a surname 3,029 ranked #10,142 the other way round
What Laurie means and where it comes from
Latin in origin, reading literally as “laurel”.
Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.
How often Laurie has been given
168,187 babies were given this name since 1882. The busiest year was 1962, with 10,705 of them.
Most people carrying it were born in the 1960s. It has been given less often of late.
Counted from Social Security card applications, so it covers births registered in the United States and leaves out names given to fewer than five babies in a year.
Middle names that fit Laurie
Two syllables sit with almost anything — the join matters more than the length.
- Laurie Mary
- Laurie Maria
- Laurie Jennifer
- Laurie Patricia
- Laurie Susan
- Laurie Barbara
- Laurie Karen
- Laurie Sarah
Better avoided
- Laurie Elizabeth — runs together
- Laurie Lisa — same opening
- Laurie Emily — runs together
Chosen by sound from the pronouncing dictionary, then ordered by how often the name is given. None of it is a rule — the ear decides.
Going quiet
Laurie has more than halved in three decades. The people carrying it belong mostly to the Baby Boomers.
Is Laurie a boy's or a girl's name?
As recorded on census returns, not as anyone thinks the name ought to be used.
The same name elsewhere
- Enz Swiss
- Lori Swiss
- Lora English
- Lenz Swiss
- Laur Lapp.|Esth
- Renzo Italian
- Lovre Slov
- Lovra Serv
- Lorus Lith
- Laure French
- Laura Eng.|It.|Ger
- Larse Swedish
- Larry Ir
- Lanty Ir
Forms of one name traced to the same root. Spellings are as the glossary printed them, so some look older than the versions in use today.
How to spell Laurie
Laurie is how 18% of them spell it — 824,201 people answer to the sound.
- Laura 82%
- Laurie 18%
Each spelling is its own census entry — the counts never overlap, so the shares are of the group, not of the country.
Names about as common
The nearest entries above and below by number of people.
Who has this name today
- White alone (non-Hispanic) — 91.6%
- Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 2.0%
- Hispanic or Latino origin — 2.9%
- Two or more races — 2.0%
- Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 1.0%
Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.
Where in America Laurie is thickest on the ground
In Vermont the name is given 4.2 times as often as it is across the country.
- Vermont ×4.2
- Maine ×3.9
- Rhode Island ×2.8
- Massachusetts ×2.6
- North Dakota ×2.4
Measured against the state's own share of births since 1960, so a small state can lead a big one. Counted from Social Security card applications.
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The matcher is confident about clashes — rhymes, doubled sounds, colliding stresses — because those are facts about the phonemes. Ordering the names that pass is a set of rules, not a verdict on beauty.
Where this page gets its numbers
- Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
- Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
- Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.
Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Latin origin