Meaning not yet researched.
Torey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #845 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #845 in 1987; #9,623 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Torey in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,623 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #845.
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Torey: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #845 in 1987 · most boys in one year: 123 (1987).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Torey, making it the 9,623rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,364 places from #8,259 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 10 boys named Torey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #845, reached in 1987. That year also had the most boys given the name: 123. For comparison, it was #4,689 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Torey in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,054, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 103. For comparison, it was #14,379 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Torey in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 4,394 US babies have been given the name, 32% of them girls and 68% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,264 babies named Torey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 157 US boys were named Torey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tori (38,348 babies since 1880), Tory (10,916 babies since 1880), Torrey (6,344 babies since 1880) and Torri (3,439 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Turea are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Turea (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Torey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,623 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,259 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #6,187 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,915 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,646 |
| 2020 | — | — | 21 | #4,684 |
| 2019 | — | — | 21 | #4,789 |
| 2018 | — | — | 14 | #6,308 |
| 2017 | — | — | 22 | #4,579 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,084 | 24 | #4,312 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,379 | 21 | #4,689 |
| 2014 | — | — | 17 | #5,464 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,073 | 8 | #9,581 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,375 | 15 | #5,967 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,614 | 20 | #4,808 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,199 | 17 | #5,449 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,791 | 26 | #4,022 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,538 | 24 | #4,252 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,494 | 27 | #3,886 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,359 | 32 | #3,379 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,873 | 34 | #3,082 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,061 | 33 | #3,069 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,784 | 22 | #3,967 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,116 | 42 | #2,424 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,829 | 35 | #2,736 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,974 | 34 | #2,728 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,304 | 54 | #1,851 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,911 | 48 | #2,010 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,363 | 41 | #2,160 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,299 | 60 | #1,633 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,481 | 67 | #1,465 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,350 | 83 | #1,287 |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,852 | 107 | #1,083 |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,317 | 106 | #1,067 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,701 | 116 | #998 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,399 | 114 | #991 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,366 | 103 | #1,015 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,476 | 96 | #992 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,654 | 123 | #845 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,774 | 77 | #1,065 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,974 | 76 | #1,064 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,780 | 74 | #1,040 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,846 | 67 | #1,092 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,523 | 74 | #1,062 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,994 | 63 | #1,163 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,501 | 81 | #1,009 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,221 | 77 | #1,015 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,567 | 97 | #876 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,756 | 102 | #852 |
| 1976 | 53 | #1,790 | 94 | #865 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,765 | 62 | #1,064 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,850 | 43 | #1,307 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,622 | 47 | #1,221 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,519 | 51 | #1,147 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,588 | 32 | #1,555 |
| 1970 | — | — | 33 | #1,491 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,617 | 32 | #1,433 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,955 | 22 | #1,727 |
| 1967 | — | — | 24 | #1,607 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,513 | 12 | #2,452 |
| 1965 | — | — | 18 | #1,915 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,836 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,518 | 7 | #3,625 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,830 | 5 | #4,617 |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,579 | 6 | #4,013 |
| 1959 | 103 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,290 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).