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Laurie

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~147,000 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#2,822 among girls
Births in 2025
60 168,442 since 1880
Typical age
62 years, median

Laurie popularity over time

Laurie rank by birth year, 1882–2025Laurie ranked #908 in 1882 and #2,822 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #37, in 1960.#100#1,000#2,822best #37 in 196018901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1882–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1962: 10,706 births recorded as Laurie. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1882. It has held a top-100 place in 19 separate years.

In 2025 it ranked #2,822 with 60 births. Year on year the rank improved by 225.

Babies named Laurie per yearPeaks at 10,706 births in 1962.10,706 in 1962018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Laurie?

About 147,000 people named Laurie are alive in the United States today. That is out of 168,442 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Laurie?

Median age among living Lauries: 62. More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Laurie a late 20th-century name.

Your Laurie

Ages of living people named LaurieHalf of living Lauries are older than 62 and half younger.median 62020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Laurie is most common

The name is concentrated in Pennsylvania, at 2.3× the national rate.

Where Laurie is used more than average1 states use the name Laurie more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: 2.3× the national ratePANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Laurie is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Pennsylvania 35 2.3×

Laurie in England and Wales

ONS recorded 126 births named Laurie in 2025, ranking it #372. That is 73% higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Laurie comes from

The given names are s of a shortening of Laurence,Lawrence,Laura,Lauren ie, all ultimately from Latin laurus (“laurel”).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Laurie

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Laurie Holden American-Canadian actress 1969 56
Laurie Anderson American artist and musician 1947 50
Laurie Hernandez American artistic gymnast 2000 22
Laurie Halse Anderson American children's writer 1961 21
Laurie Lee British writer 1914–1997 20
Laurie Bartram American actress and singer 1958–2007 18
Laurie Penny English journalist, columnist and author 1986 18
Laurie Bird American actress, photographer 1953–1979 17
Photo credits (5)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 1,428 in 1950 to 2,377 in 1951 — 1.7 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Laurie

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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