Entry № 6037 · English origin

Lori Lori — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LOR-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Laurel-crowned (peaked #16 in 1965; Lori Greiner, Lori Lightfoot)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "laurel-crowned (peaked #16 in 1965; lori greiner, lori lightfoot)".

Lori is a 20th-century American diminutive of Laura / Lorraine — from the Latin laurus (laurel, the victor's crown).

Laurel-crowned. Peaked at #16 in 1965; Lori Lightfoot was Chicago's first Black female mayor.

The name in its native script.

Lori
Transliteration
Lori
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɔːr.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lori stands.

Lori does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Loris before her.

Real people
Lori Lightfoot
First Black female Mayor of Chicago.
born 1962
Lori Greiner
American inventor and Shark Tank investor.
born 1969
Lori Loughlin
American actress.
born 1964
In fiction
Lori
The Walking Dead.
2010

Names connected to Lori.

The number behind Lori.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lori reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.