Meaning not yet researched.
Torrey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #463 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #463 in 1977; #6,767 in 2025. About 52% of babies named Torrey in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,767 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #463.
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Torrey: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #463 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 302 (1977).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Torrey, making it the 6,767th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,899 places from #4,868 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 21 boys named Torrey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #463, reached in 1977. That year also had the most boys given the name: 302. For comparison, it was #3,766 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Torrey, making it the 8,818th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,543 places from #13,361 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 7 girls named Torrey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,240, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 59. For comparison, it was #16,269 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Torrey in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1938 with 5 babies. In all, 6,344 US babies have been given the name, 20% of them girls and 80% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,118 babies named Torrey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 185 US boys were named Torrey; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tory (10,916 babies since 1880), Torey (4,394 babies since 1880), Torrie (3,464 babies since 1880) and Torri (3,439 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Torree 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: Torree (10).
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 Torrey 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 | 12 | #8,818 | 13 | #6,767 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,361 | 21 | #4,868 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,260 | 19 | #5,234 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,625 | 14 | #6,444 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,937 | 19 | #5,092 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,495 | 13 | #6,585 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,700 | 19 | #5,135 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,374 | 24 | #4,342 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,997 | 23 | #4,451 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,798 | 20 | #4,925 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,269 | 29 | #3,766 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,982 | 29 | #3,684 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,196 | 38 | #2,992 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,137 | 27 | #3,884 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,133 | 24 | #4,204 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,200 | 37 | #3,123 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,123 | 40 | #2,983 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,933 | 46 | #2,713 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,075 | 37 | #3,129 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,819 | 35 | #3,149 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,118 | 30 | #3,382 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,367 | 32 | #3,150 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,562 | 42 | #2,503 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,024 | 44 | #2,369 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,312 | 49 | #2,146 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,284 | 44 | #2,251 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,960 | 52 | #1,898 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,360 | 64 | #1,639 |
| 1997 | 28 | #4,002 | 71 | #1,498 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,300 | 60 | #1,634 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,732 | 95 | #1,192 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,699 | 109 | #1,074 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,240 | 121 | #989 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,213 | 95 | #1,134 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,053 | 142 | #888 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,152 | 116 | #978 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,248 | 125 | #910 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,581 | 130 | #834 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,326 | 144 | #768 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,357 | 120 | #830 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,614 | 79 | #1,041 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,957 | 88 | #943 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,800 | 92 | #923 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,769 | 107 | #864 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,729 | 99 | #898 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,986 | 114 | #827 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,993 | 164 | #670 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,302 | 260 | #504 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,377 | 302 | #463 |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,436 | 250 | #506 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,961 | 180 | #606 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,851 | 144 | #682 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,350 | 138 | #680 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,521 | 166 | #614 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,058 | 151 | #675 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,477 | 122 | #748 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,450 | 92 | #807 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,474 | 31 | #1,424 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,283 | 28 | #1,471 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,775 | 19 | #1,809 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,772 | 15 | #2,167 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,733 | 11 | #2,653 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,541 | 19 | #1,895 |
| 1962 | — | — | 18 | #1,954 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,216 | 17 | #2,064 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,673 | 24 | #1,689 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,604 | 15 | #2,190 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,958 | 5 | #4,470 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,624 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,194 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,853 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,152 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #3,127 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #3,084 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,836 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,661 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,224 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,147 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,302 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,700 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,857 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,994 |
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).