Lori

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lori: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lori: Recorded since 1981, it reached #269 in 2015, and it stood at #3,015 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
44years from first to last
#269highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#643
1997	#926
1998	#846
1999	#900
2000	#748
2001	#1359
2002	#1442
2003	#1325
2004	#1715
2005	#1500
2006	#1502
2007	#1656
2008	#2292
2009	#2019
2010	#2392
2011	#2275
2012	#1893
2013	#2176
2014	#2203
2015	#1783
2016	#1571
2017	#1733
2018	#1711
2019	#2643
2020	#2843
2021	#1628
2022	#1849
2023	#1959
2024	#3015

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 8 of the 39 years from 1981 to 2019.

In 2022: #418 among girls in Northern Ireland, #1849 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1981–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1981
First recorded at #533 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1981 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1998–2022
Highest recorded position: #269 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2015 (recorded 1998–2022).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3015 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Lori appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 466 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1981.

Lori across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lori's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#533 (1981)	#429 (1996)	#871 (2019)	8 of 39	28 (1981–2019)	5 (1996)
England and Wales · Girls	#643 (1996)	#643 (1996)	#3015 (2024)	29 of 29	466 (1996–2024)	37 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#351 (1998)	#269 (2015)	#418 (2022)	12 of 25	48 (1998–2022)	6 (2014)

Lori by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lori in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	110	4 of 10	28
2000sbusiest	154	10 of 10	15
2010s	139	10 of 10	14
2020s	63	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 15 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Lori appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1981 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #269 in Northern Ireland in 2015.

Lori's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3015	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1849	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1711	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1571	20	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1783	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2203	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1893	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2275	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1656	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1502	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1500	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1715	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1325	16	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1442	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1359	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#748	31	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#900	24	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#846	26	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#926	23	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#643	37	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#313	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#269	6	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#278	6	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#311	5	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#366	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#331	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	3	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	5	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#476	4	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#533	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1981 and 2024, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #269, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 37 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 17 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Meg · #269, 29y
Sullivan · #269, 29y
Ellie-Rose · #268, 29y
Leigha · #268, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Nicky · #269, 29y
Emelie · #270, 44y
Henrikke · #267, 34y
Jena · #271, 30y

Lori was ranked #269 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2015. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Lori and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lori without appearing here.

Lori moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2176 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2203 and #4684.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1500 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1502 and #3548.
Rachael Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #1939 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1628 and #3519.
Karen Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #1773 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1628 and #3192.

Moved ahead of Lori

Shania Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1959 and #2063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #1353.
Marilyn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1959 and #2063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #1541.
Eileen Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1711 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2643 and #1316.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1959 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Lori

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lori went from #643 to #3015 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lori went from #643 to #3015 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lori went from #643 to #3015 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lori went from #643 to #3015 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Lori

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lori went from #643 to #3015 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lori went from #643 to #3015 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lori went from #643 to #3015 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lori went from #643 to #3015 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1981 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #269 in Northern Ireland in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lori

Lori at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lori across 3 official records

Lori by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lori appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Lori at a glance

Lori across 3 official records

Lori by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lori appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

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Lori and the names beside it

Lori moved ahead of

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