Lauri
About 11,246 American babies have been named Lauri since 1912, most of them around 1961. In 2025 it ranked 11,932nd. About 9,800 Lauris are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lauri boys named Lauri
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,246
- Estimated living today
- 9,800
- Median age today
- 61
- Peak year
- 1961
- Best rank
- 355th
- Rank in 2025
- 11,932nd
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 11,063 / 183
How old the living Lauris are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,246 babies given the name since 1912, about 9,800 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 70 of them are children and 2,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Lauris
- Lauri Kristian Relander (1883–1942)Finnish politician; the 2nd President of Finland
- Lauri Markkanen (born 1997)Finnish basketball player
- Lauri Ingman (1868–1934)Finnish priest, theologian and politician
- Lauri Törni (1919–1965)Finnish military officer in the Finnish Army, Waffen-SS, and U.S. Army
- Lauri Ylönen (born 1979)Finnish rock singer
- Lauri Lehtinen (1908–1973)Finnish athletics competitor
- Lauri Virtanen (1904–1982)Finnish long-distance runner
- Lauri Korpikoski (born 1986)Finnish ice hockey player
People named Lauri with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lauri is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lauri is most concentrated in Washington (2.3×), Utah (2.1×), Michigan (2.1×), Maine (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1961
The most popular girls’ names the year Lauri peaked:
Lauri elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Lauri | 142 | 651st |
| England and Wales girls | Lauri | 16 | 3,970th |
| France boys | Lauri | 10 | 3,308th |
| Scotland girls | Lauri | 9 | 565th |
| France girls | Lauri | 5 | 4,715th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lauri: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Lauri | 141 | 0.011% | 467th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Lauri | 1 | 0.000% | 594th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Lauri is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.01% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Lauri among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Lauri | 21,668 | 33,942 |
| Finland girls | Lauri | — | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Lauri against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.