girls:
341.6k births since 1924
#107 (98th percentile)
boys:
853 births since 1954
#3734 (19th percentile)
overall:
342.5k births since 1924
#212 (97th percentile)
The name Lori is the #212 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 342,502 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 97.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #107 (98.1% percentile) for all time with 341,649 births since 1924. For boys, it ranks #3,734 (18.5% percentile) for all time with 853 births since 1954.
Lori first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for girls and 1954 for boys). Birth data for Lori is available in 99 out of the 100 years between 1924 and 2023 (99 years for girls and 35 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lori has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lori reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 99.1% percentile (ranked #8) with 12,024 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 12,024 births per million (ranked 99.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lori ranks #797 for girls (15.9% percentile) with 89 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lori reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #614) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 24 births per million (ranked 6.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lori".
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