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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lory

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

2,258

peak year 1961

More common than

94%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1961
106 births
Best rank
#1,052
in 1962
First recorded
1923
#5,379 that year
Last recorded
2022
no later published record
Average birth year
1968
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
75 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1961106#1,065Peak
  2. 1962106#1,052
  3. 195891#1,109
  4. 196090#1,149
  5. 196390#1,155

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,052 in 1962 · peak births 106 in 1961

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 11% boys■ 89% girls

267 boys · 2,258 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Lory has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.