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Lauree vs Laurie

American parents have registered 168,442 Lauries since 1880, against 756 Laurees. Laurie is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lauree against Laurie, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lauree Laurie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Laurie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1919, when Lauree had 13 and Laurie had 60.

Side by side

  Lauree Laurie
Total US births 756168,442
Most in one year 3310,706
Babies in 2025 under 560
Estimated living today 540144,000
Median age today 6262
Peak year 19591962
Best rank 1,951st girls42nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,822nd
First recorded 19141882
Girls / boys 756 / 0166,488 / 1,954

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lauree and Laurie.