Lori

Where Lori comes from

Lori hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1924
    First appearance
    #4,434 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1963
    Lori Petty born
    American actress
  3. 1963
    Peak, #8
    23,899 babies named Lori — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1964
    Lori Loughlin born
    American actress
  5. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #25.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lori Loughlin · American actress, born 1964
  • Lori Petty · American actress, born 1963
  • Lori Singer · American actress and classical musician, born 1957
  • Lori Lightfoot · Mayor of Chicago from 2019 to 2023, born 1962
  • Lori Sandri · Brazilian association football player and manager, 1949–2014

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.