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Lory

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lory has been given to 2,525 babies in the U.S. since 1923. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1961, with 106 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.

Babies named Lory, 2022

1 in 423,000

Lory over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Lory over time

In 2022, Lory went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19152022

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Lory: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lory means

Lory is a given name.

The naming story behind Lory

Wikidata records Lory as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q71144976, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,258 girls were recorded with the name Lory between 1923 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 106 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,052 in 1962.

In the United States, 267 boys were recorded with the name Lory between 1915 and 1966. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1957; its best national rank was #2,204 in 1951.

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.

How common is Lory?

Lory had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 423,000
8 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 205,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
293,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lory 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 2022 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 293,354 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lory. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lorys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lory was born before 1965 — so the typical Lory is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,153
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (762).

Is Lory 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1961 (106)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,052
1962

Spellings of Lory

Lory is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 61.0% against Lory's 0.03%.

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 Lory is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Lory was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 142,955 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 100,000

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. Lory has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Lory is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Lory was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,584,791 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Lory has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lory around the world

Where Lory 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.

  • France
    1969–2023
    #6,969
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1959–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lory in other languages

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

LoriLauryLorie

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

Lory by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,052
1962
Peak year
1961
106 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
2,258
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,204
1951
Peak year
1957
14 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1966
All-time count
267
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lory

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

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Names with a curve like Lory

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

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Sibling names for Lory

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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