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How popular is the name Laurie?
Births per year, rank history and how many Lauries are alive today.
Laurie (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 372nd in 2025 with 112 babies given the name. It has risen strongly over the past decade. Laurie is one spelling of a name also recorded as Lawrie; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Laurie you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Lauries born in England and Wales are between 5 and 29, and there are at least 1,500 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Laurie - on average, only one in every 202 such rooms contains a Laurie.
How many babies are named Laurie each year?
Includes all spellings: Laurie, Lawrie. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Laurie spelling rank?
Where does the Lawrie spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Laurie most popular?
Laurie peaked in 2025, when 116 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Laurie?
At least 1,500 people named Laurie in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Laurie?
Most living Lauries are between 5 and 29; the most common age is about 2.
Is Laurie becoming more or less popular?
Rising: it has climbed strongly over the past decade.