Rorey
Rorey is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,578 among girls’ names and #7,570 among boys’, #11,738 among all names counting both); 256 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rorey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rorey?
#7,570 among boys’ names, 2025
Rorey rose from #13,646 in 2015 to #7,570 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 6.4 per million.
17 babies in 2013, the peak
Rorey peaked in 2013, when 17 babies were given it (10 boys, #7,977 among boys’ names). The 17 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 100% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,578 | 11 | #7,570 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 5 | #13,844 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 6 | #11,963 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 6 | #12,033 | |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,988 | 5 | #13,697 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #11,732 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,531 | 6 | #11,860 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,285 | 5 | #13,707 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,827 | 6 | #11,928 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,656 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,777 | 5 | #13,646 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,135 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,305 | 10 | #7,977 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,993 | 7 | #10,532 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,532 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,058 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,845 | 7 | #10,737 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,563 | 5 | #14,190 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #13,611 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #11,184 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,815 | 5 | #12,377 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #10,294 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #10,081 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 7 | #8,273 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,711 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,897 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,600 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 7 | #5,464 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #7,113 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rorey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 256 Americans recorded as Rorey, 40% are girls and 60% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rorey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rorey, and how old are they?
An estimated 252 Americans named Rorey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 309 people named Rorey (121 women and girls, 188 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 201 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Rorey?
Rorey is a less common spelling of Rory: SSA has recorded 256 Rorey and 49,421 Rory since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 462,577 babies since 1880, Rorey is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 3,723 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rorey
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rorey and names like it
- Compare Rorey and RoryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRorey peaked in 2013.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Rorey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rorey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.