Lori
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of Lorraine or variant of pLaurie
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫɔɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lori is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Canada it is the 63rd most common given name.
- CACanada≈1 in 803(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 863
- CNChina≈1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #209 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 579 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 803 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Laurie in NZ New Zealand, ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pet form of Lorraine or variant of pLaurie.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lori counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Lori | 35 |
| US United States | #84 | 299,419 | 1 in 1.1K | 299K | Lori | 579 |
| GB United Kingdom | #176 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1.6K | Lori | 247 |
| CA Canada | #63 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 803 | 29 | Lori | 287 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Laurie | 43 |
| IE Ireland | #81 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 863 | 99 | Lori | 85 |
| NZ New Zealand | #213 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 40 | Laurie | 96 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lori is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name, popular in the US in the 1960s.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, abrégé de Laura/Laurie; du latin laurus « laurier ». Fête: 10 août, saint Laurent.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, mit i-Suffix oder lat. Genitiv, wohl zu Laurentius; 67 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Perhaps a respelling of Itahan Lauri.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Swiss; variant spelling of Lory.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lori Martinb. 1947USAmerican film actress (1947-2010)
- Lori Singerb. 1957USAmerican actress and classical musician
- Lori Robinsonb. 1959USCorporate board member and retired United States Air Force General
- Lori Lightfootb. 1962USMayor of Chicago from 2019 to 2023
- Lori Pettyb. 1963USAmerican actress
- Lori McNeilb. 1963USAmerican tennis player
- Lori Loughlinb. 1964USAmerican actress (born 1964)
- Lori Alanb. 1966USAmerican actress
- Lori Livelyb. 1966USAmerican actress
- Lori McKennab. 1968USAmerican musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 85 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 299K | #172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 223 | #172 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 118 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 16 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2023 | 9 | #365 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 7 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 3 | #397 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 2 | #1,544 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Lori a male or female name?
- Lori is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Lori mean, and where does it come from?
- Pet form of Lorraine or variant of pLaurie. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Lori have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Lori in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lori.
- What are other forms of the name Lori?
- In the etymology graph, Lorena, Laurie and Loretta are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Laura and Lorraine.
- How do you pronounce Lori?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɔɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Lori?
- In the United States, the national register counted 299,419 people named Lori in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Lori compared with other names?
- In Canada, Lori is the 63rd most common given name of 188,338 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lori?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loriThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lori” — the 63rd most common given name in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.