In Croatia, Lauri families are Croats (from Sibenik ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Lauri live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Sibenik (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned about one hundred times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.