Is Laurie a male or female name?
Laurie is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 99% and male usage in England and Wales at 52%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 98%
- Sample size
- 209,786
- Confidence
- high
Laurie by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 99% | 168,379 | ssa |
| France FR | female | 100% | 29,795 | insee |
| Canada CA | female | 100% | 8,138 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | male | 52% | 2,781 | ons |
| Switzerland CH | female | 100% | 498 | bfs |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 152 | cso |
| Poland PL | female | 90% | 29 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 14 | statat |
Attested in 63 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Laurie over time
In the United States, 71.5% of the babies named Laurie in the 1900s were girls, against 100% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 100% of the babies named Laurie in the 1960s were girls, against 100% in the 2010s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 72% | 137 | — | |
| 1910s | 59% | 498 | — | |
| 1920s | 57% | 783 | — | |
| 1930s | 70% | 1,052 | — | |
| 1940s | 94% | 5,541 | — | |
| 1950s | 99% | 47,242 | — | |
| 1960s | 100% | 74,717 | 100% | 165 |
| 1970s | 100% | 26,236 | 99% | 1,540 |
| 1980s | 100% | 8,360 | 100% | 9,315 |
| 1990s | 100% | 2,029 | 100% | 14,120 |
| 2000s | 100% | 843 | 100% | 4,245 |
| 2010s | 100% | 553 | 100% | 295 |
| 2020s | 100% | 236 | — |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Laurie with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Laurie
Is Laurie a male or female name?
Laurie is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 99% and male usage in England and Wales at 52%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Laurie change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Laurie identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.