Alternative spelling for Laurie — bad idea?

[DameSylvieKrin]

We would love to use the name Laurie as a standalone name. (His big sister is Tess, also on her birth certificate and I'm not hung up on having a long name and a nickname.)
However, the poor kid will have four nationalities and will be born in a fifth country. Three of those places, including the one we are most likely to live in, would pronounce Laurie Lau- (rhyming with 'now') ree-uh. Which is just too far from what we would be calling him at home. Is there any more phonetic spelling that would still be recognised in the UK or do we just have to forget about Laurie?

Nice name. What about Lauri or Lori?

I know a Lori. Works well on him, he's 47.

Lorry?
But be prepared for him to be given the nickname Truck at school

Love Laurie but I can’t think of an attractive alternative spelling that really works. I’d go with Laurie and just be prepared to explain it — it’s an easy enough sound I’d have thought, even if spelling may not be intuitive elsewhere.

Lawrie? I had a friend whose name was spelt Lawrence and that how he abbreviated it.

Lawrie is a usual shortening of Lawrence but may not solve your problem!

There's a Tobias in our family. One nationality pronounces it Tob-eye-us and the other pronounces it Tob-EE-us. He responds to both

You could switch to Louis (pronounced Loo-ee) if that’s not going to cause issues and not too royal for you

Could you do Lawry? That gets rid of the I-E ending that is likely to give you the ree-uh ending you don't want.

Laurie is a scottish name is that 1 of your nationalities I like it but the lauries I know are men but stillif you like it do it.

Lori I think is the nicest alternative spelling :)

Lori is the easiest solution , Id think

I know of a Lawrey, if that helps

Louis won't help if one of your nationalities is German - they pronounce it "lou-is" not as "louie".

We have three nationalities and one of them pronounce the kids names horribly. But once the kids were old enough they very quickly corrected them!

It depends on whether the name can be said by all the nationalities rather than how it would be pronounced, and what country he will predominantly live in

All the Laurie's I know are older generation and from north east england

I work with a female Lori, she's late twenties.

I knew a girl called Lawrie, said Lorry, in school.