How rare is the name Lorie?

19,014 people in the United States have the first name Lorie, about 1 in 15,885. It ranks #1,653 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LORIE

#1,653

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
19,014
About
1 in 15,885
This common or more
76.2%
Who bears it

Of the 19,014 people named Lorie, 83.8% reported their origin as White, 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.3% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lorie peaked in 1963, when 1,311 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19082025
Peak year
1963
Births that year
1,311
In 2025*
8 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 22,068 babies have been given the name since 1908. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Lorie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #505. The largest share of babies named Lorie, 46.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1900s#4,9315
1910s#4,80076
1920s#4,961113
1930s#4,410112
1940s#2,536338
1950s#8693,487
1960s#50510,656
1970s#7445,304
1980s#1,9051,265
1990s#5,566338
2000s#10,323194
2010s#15,296116
2020s#15,51764
Greatest Generation 1901–270.8%
Silent Generation 1928–451.2%
Baby boom 1946–6443.6%
Generation X 1965–8046.5%
Millennials 1981–965.9%
Generation Z 1997–121.3%
2013 and later0.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Lorie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lorie has been most common in Utah (1.8×), Michigan (1.5×), and Idaho (1.4×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.5×).

19,278 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lorie, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Lorie ranks #67,846 of 156,621, with 313 people. See Lorie as a last name

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