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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Crowned with laurel

Girl name variations

How Popular Is The Name Lory

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English, Scottish, and Irish : from a pet form of Lawrence. Compare Lowry.
  • South German and Swiss (also Löry) : from a pet form of the personal name Lorenz.
  • French : habitational name from either of two villages called Lory, in Loir-et-Cher and Lot, or from Lorry in Moselle.
  • A Lory-Gargot from Poitou, France, was in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec City, by 1665; in Quebec city by 1666; and Becquet by 1670. A Francois Lory, born in Poitiers, France, died in Lachine, Quebec, in 1702.

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