Lauri

Where Lauri comes from

Lauri 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. 1868
    Lauri Ingman born
    Finnish priest, theologian and politician
  2. 1883
    Lauri Kristian Relander born
    Finnish politician; the 2nd President of Finland
  3. 1941
    First appearance
    #3,030 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1941
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1961
    Peak, #355
    717 babies named Lauri — more than any year before or since.
  6. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #524.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lauri Kristian Relander · Finnish politician; the 2nd President of Finland, 1883–1942
  • Lauri Ingman · Finnish priest, theologian and politician, 1868–1934
  • Lauri Markkanen · Finnish basketball player, born 1997
  • Lauri Törni · Finnish military officer in the Finnish Army, Waffen-SS, and U.S. Army, 1919–1965
  • Lauri Ylönen · Finnish rock singer, born 1979

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.