girls:
2.3k births since 1923
#3631 (36th percentile)
boys:
267 births since 1915
#4319 (6th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1915
#5319 (31st percentile)
The name Lory is the #5,319 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,525 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 31.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,631 (36.5% percentile) for all time with 2,258 births since 1923. For boys, it ranks #4,319 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 267 births since 1915.
Lory first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1923 for girls). Birth data for Lory is available in 92 out of the 108 years between 1915 and 2022 (75 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 Lory has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Lory were girls. Interestingly, until around 1945, the name was more popular for boys (78.9% boys from 1915 to 1944), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (93.8% girls from 1945 to 2022).
For girls, Lory reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 13.1% percentile (ranked #671) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 52 births per million (ranked 13.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Lory reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #649) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1966.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lory".
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