No one named Laurie appears in the Bible. Laurie began as a short form of two Latin names: Laura, from laurus, “laurel,” and Laurence or Lawrence, “from Laurentum,” an Italian city probably named for the same tree. It has no Hebrew meaning, and French calendars give it the name day of Saint Lawrence, 10 August. What does Laurie mean? Behind the Name lists Laurie as a diminutive of both Laura and Laurence, and either way the name leads back to…

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