Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
As a French surname, it comes from Latin laurus.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1922. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Laury through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 933
- 51 boys · 882 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 80 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,489 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,489 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 80 in 1960. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,311 as a first name in 2020; 1,364 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.
Laury’s family of names
In English usage, Laury as a surname has a related form in LAUR. In English usage, Laury as a surname has a related form in Lawry.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
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 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Laury
- Laury ThillemanMiss France 2011, contestant in Miss Universe 2011 and Miss World 2011born 1991
- Laury PerezFrench cyclist (born 2003)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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