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Lowry

#11,468 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Variant of Laury

Lowry has been given to 505 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #11,468 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1945, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Lowry, 2025

1 in 553,000

Lowry over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Lowry over time

In 2025, Lowry went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19002025

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.

Lowry: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Laury

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lowry means

Lowry is a variant of Laury.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* As an Irish surname, from Ó Labhradha. See Lavery and compare McClory. * As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Laury, Lawrie. Also compare Lowery.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lowry (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Lowry is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Laury.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 478 boys were recorded with the name Lowry between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1945; its best national rank was #1,125 in 1900.

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Lowry between 1962 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,150 in 1962.

How common is Lowry?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,468
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lowry sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lowry. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lowrys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lowry was born before 1942 — so the typical Lowry is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
151
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1940s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Lowry 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
37.5%
Peak was 1945 (16)
Years since peak
80
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,125
1900

Spellings of Lowry

Lowry is not the most common spelling — Larry is, with 79.2% against Lowry's 0.05%.

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 Lowry is used

Across 1910–2025, Lowry was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 737,056 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 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. Lowry has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lowry around the world

Where Lowry 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
    2018–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Lowry by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,468
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,125
1900
Peak year
1945
16 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
478
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,150
1962
Peak year
2023
7 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lowry

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

LowenLoweryLowsanLowisLowelLoweLowensLowanLowmanLowellLowreyLowrieDrewryLow

Sibling names for Lowry

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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