Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Lauralee isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lauralee through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,257
- 0 boys · 2,257 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 51 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,614 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −39%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,614 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 51 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,376 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lauralee’s family of names
Lauralee has a related form in Laura.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lauralee
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Lauralee, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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