Given name & surname
Lauri
Lauri is used as a given name and a surname. Lauri is connected with Laurence.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Finnish use, Lauri is used as a form of Laurence.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In Finnish use, Lauri is a form of Laurence. The history of Laurence gives this family its wider story. Laurence was in use during the Middle Ages.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Lauri through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11,246
- 183 boys · 11,063 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 717 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,615 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,615 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 717 in 1961. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 10,367 as a first name in 2020; 379 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lauri’s family of names
In English usage, Lauri is a diminutive of Laura. In Finnish usage, Lauri shares a linguistic root with the English form Laurence. In Finnish usage, Lauri has a conventional equivalent in the French form Laurent.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Lauri has relatives in 8 languages.
13 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lauri
- Lauri Kristian RelanderFinnish politician; the 2nd President of Finland (1883–1942)
- Lauri IngmanFinnish priest, theologian and politician (1868-1934)
- Lauri MarkkanenFinnish basketball player (born 1997)
- Lauri YlönenFinnish rock singerborn 1979
- Lauri TörniFinnish military officer in the Finnish Army, Waffen-SS, and U.S. Army (1919-1965)
- Lauri LehtinenFinnish athletics competitor (1908–1973)
- Lauri VirtanenFinnish long-distance runner1904–1982
- Lauri KorpikoskiFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1986
- Lauri HussarEstonian journalist (born 1973)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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