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Lauri

#12,611 in 2025Girls' name

Laurel tree, through Laura

Lauri has been given to 11,246 babies in the U.S. since 1941. In 2025 it ranked #12,611 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 717 recorded.

Babies named Lauri, 2025

1 in 474,000

Lauri over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lauri: meaning, origin, and history

Laurel tree, through Laura

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lauri means

Lauri belongs to the name family reached through Lauri → Laura. Its meaning is “laurel tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lauri is used in English, Estonian, Finnish and Ingrian.

Lauri comes through Dzongkha ལའུ་རི་.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Laura, Laurence and Laurenz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Lauri is pronounced /ˈlɑu̯ri/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,063 girls were recorded with the name Lauri between 1941 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 717 in 1961; its best national rank was #356 in 1961.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,477 in 2020 to #12,611 in 2025.

In the United States, 183 boys were recorded with the name Lauri between 1912 and 1959. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1920; its best national rank was #2,176 in 1913.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lauri?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,611
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lauri sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lauri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lauris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lauri was born before 1964 — so the typical Lauri is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
50.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.80%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
10,904
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 50.3% of all recorded uses (5,561).

Is Lauri rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,866
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0.98%
Peak was 1961 (717)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#356
1961

Spellings of Lauri

Lauri is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 37.1% against Lauri's 0.51%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lauri is used

Across 1910–2025, Lauri was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 17,536 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 7,692
  2. 2Maine1 in 8,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 8,333
  4. 4Oregon1 in 8,333
  5. 5Utah1 in 8,333
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 9,091
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 10,000
  8. 8Montana1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lauri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lauri around the world

Where Lauri ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • Scotland
    1986–1996
    #611
    in 1996
  • France
    1998–1998
    #4,715
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #2,426
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1963–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lauri

People whose public names include Lauri, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lauri in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lauri. Linked forms have their own page here.

LariLarsLasseLauryLaurieLaurisLorenzLorenzoLawrenceLaurentinoLassiLőrincLaurentius

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lauri by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,611
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,866
Best rank ever
#356
1961
Peak year
1961
717 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,063
Count in 2025
7

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,176
1913
Peak year
1920
15 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1959
All-time count
183
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lauri

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LaunaLaurynLaureenLaurelLaurettaZuriLauryZhuriYuriLaureSuriLaurieAzuriLaureneMauriLauraleeLaurinLauranSayuriGauriLaurineNuriLauraLaural

Names with a curve like Lauri

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lauri, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LesaKrisDanetteLorrieDeannMarybethTamelaLorieSuzetteLeisaJuliCindi

Sibling names for Lauri

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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