Laurie
Laurie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 52 births. Its best rank was 37th, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 520.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 196210,674 births
- Best rank
- #37in 1960
- Since 1882
- 168,382people given the name
The story in the numbers
166,428 girls have been named Laurie in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 10,674 births — 0.54% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 52 births in 2024, against 10,674 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 45%. It has spent 73 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 19 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,954 boys have also been given it, 1.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Laurie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 50 | |
| 1890s | 76 | |
| 1900s | 97 | |
| 1910s | 296 | |
| 1920s | 449 | |
| 1930s | 734 | |
| 1940s | 5,223 | |
| 1950s | 46,962 | |
| 1960s | 74,449 | |
| 1970s | 26,104 | |
| 1980s | 8,327 | |
| 1990s | 2,026 | |
| 2000s | 844 | |
| 2010s | 555 | |
| 2020s | 236 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Laurie was the 42nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1962 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Laurie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Robinpeak 1961
- Lorriepeak 1961
- Terripeak 1959
- Lorrypeak 1960
- Teripeak 1960
- Lauripeak 1961
- Taripeak 1959
- Tamapeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.