Lorrie

Where Lorrie comes from

Lorrie 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. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,344 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1957
    Lorrie Moore born
    American writer
  3. 1962
    Peak, #279
    1,032 babies named Lorrie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #426.
  5. 1978
    Lorrie Fair-Allen born
    American soccer player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lorrie Moore · American writer, born 1957
  • Lorrie Fair-Allen · American soccer player, born 1978
  • Lorrie Collins · American musician and actor, 1942–2018
  • Lorrie Dunington-Grubb · English landscape architect, 1877–1945
  • Lorrie Wilmot · South African cricketer, 1943–2004

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.