Meaning not yet researched.
Tory: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #479 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #479 in 1977; #4,375 in 2025. About 52% of babies named Tory in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,375 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #479.
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Tory: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #479 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 286 (1977).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Tory, making it the 4,375th most common boys’ name of the year, up 183 places from #4,558 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 23 boys named Tory in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #479, reached in 1977. That year also had the most boys given the name: 286. For comparison, it was #2,959 in 2015 and #4,154 in 1950.
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Tory, making it the 5,704th most common girls’ name of the year, up 239 places from #5,943 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 21 girls named Tory in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #834, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 180. For comparison, it was #4,065 in 2015 and #4,704 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tory in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 8 babies. In all, 10,916 US babies have been given the name, 36% of them girls and 64% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,588 babies named Tory.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 334 US boys were named Tory; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tori (38,348 babies since 1880), Torrey (6,344 babies since 1880), Torey (4,394 babies since 1880) and Torri (3,439 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Torrye 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: Torrye (18).
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 Tory in the open dataset we use.
Tory is listed as a nickname for Victoria.
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 | 22 | #5,704 | 24 | #4,375 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,943 | 23 | #4,558 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,022 | 27 | #4,105 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,449 | 35 | #3,405 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,931 | 23 | #4,482 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,901 | 38 | #3,069 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,766 | 35 | #3,338 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,447 | 39 | #3,048 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,370 | 42 | #2,884 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,237 | 48 | #2,620 |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,065 | 40 | #2,959 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,174 | 28 | #3,774 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,566 | 31 | #3,489 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,041 | 28 | #3,794 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,908 | 41 | #2,897 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,169 | 35 | #3,231 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,085 | 42 | #2,890 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,473 | 47 | #2,675 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,205 | 60 | #2,233 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,988 | 61 | #2,149 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,578 | 69 | #1,867 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,553 | 66 | #1,878 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,798 | 83 | #1,546 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,581 | 75 | #1,619 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,458 | 71 | #1,658 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,967 | 87 | #1,426 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,037 | 83 | #1,419 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,956 | 90 | #1,337 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,731 | 105 | #1,166 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,465 | 116 | #1,059 |
| 1995 | 100 | #1,541 | 148 | #912 |
| 1994 | 150 | #1,183 | 169 | #816 |
| 1993 | 142 | #1,226 | 197 | #746 |
| 1992 | 108 | #1,473 | 208 | #715 |
| 1991 | 91 | #1,655 | 200 | #718 |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,633 | 231 | #667 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,785 | 245 | #641 |
| 1988 | 101 | #1,399 | 200 | #670 |
| 1987 | 88 | #1,485 | 208 | #637 |
| 1986 | 91 | #1,418 | 203 | #630 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,535 | 176 | #669 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,767 | 151 | #712 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,732 | 163 | #671 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,219 | 154 | #703 |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,561 | 131 | #766 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,980 | 158 | #693 |
| 1979 | 75 | #1,554 | 205 | #598 |
| 1978 | 106 | #1,193 | 212 | #578 |
| 1977 | 180 | #834 | 286 | #479 |
| 1976 | 144 | #916 | 220 | #542 |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,726 | 199 | #574 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,911 | 155 | #651 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,451 | 143 | #670 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,676 | 164 | #616 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,371 | 115 | #766 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,950 | 114 | #775 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,393 | 96 | #793 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,754 | 57 | #985 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,322 | 49 | #1,058 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,405 | 51 | #1,026 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,679 | 40 | #1,224 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,231 | 40 | #1,233 |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,835 | 38 | #1,275 |
| 1962 | 34 | #2,025 | 47 | #1,134 |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,515 | 49 | #1,132 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,745 | 47 | #1,151 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,694 | 27 | #1,557 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,175 | 15 | #2,170 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,678 | 18 | #1,949 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,482 | 12 | #2,488 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,561 | 11 | #2,543 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,725 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,991 | 10 | #2,698 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,328 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,363 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,704 | 5 | #4,154 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,210 | 5 | #4,167 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,976 | 8 | #2,993 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #3,077 |
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).