Laurie

The given names are clippings of Laurence, Lawrence, Laura, and Lauren +‎ -ie, all ultimately from Latin laurus (“laurel”).

The surname is from the diminutive of Lawrence.^[1]

The city in Missouri was named by its residents in 1961 after L. M. and William (Buster) Laurie, who in 1937 bought a building in the area and operated the Laurie Market, because of the goodwill generated by the family store over the years.^[2]

• (male given name): Lawrie
• (female given name): Lauri, Lori, Lorie

Laurie (countable and uncountable, plural Lauries)

1. A unisex given name.
   1. A diminutive of the male given names Laurence or Lawrence; alternative form of Lawrie; a pet form of the male given name Laurence or Lawrence.
      • 1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “The Laurence Boy”, in Little Women: […], part first, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, →OCLC, page 46:

        “I’m not Mr. Laurence, I’m only Laurie.”
        “Laurie Laurence; what an odd name.”
        “My first name is Theodore, but I don’t like it, for the fellows called me Dora, so I made them say Laurie instead.”

   2. A diminutive of the female given name Laura; popular as a female given name in the US in the mid-twentieth century.
      • 2005, Adeline Catherine Anderson, My Sunshine, Signet Classic, →ISBN, page 397:

        Laura called her parents. Her father answered. Fighting to keep her voice steady, Laura said, "Hi, Daddy."
        "Laurie? How's my little girl?"

   3. A diminutive of the female given name Lauren.
2. A surname transferred from the given name.
   • ca. 1700 ?William Douglas: Annie Laurie:

     Maxwelton braes are bonnie

     Where early fa's the dew;

     An' it's there that Annie Laurie

     Gi'ed me her promise true.

3. A city in Morgan County and Camden County, Missouri, United States.

From French Laurie, from Latin Laurum, from laurus (“laurel”).^[1]

Laurie

1. A commune in Cantal department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.