Rori
Rori was given to 172 girls in 2025, #1,298 among girls’ names; 3,365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,290 Americans named Rori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rori mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rori is “a diminutive of the female given name Aurora”
Variant of Rory.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rori?
#1,298 among girls’ names, 2025
Rori rose from #1,812 in 2015 to #1,298 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.11 per 1,000.
198 babies in 2022, the peak
Rori peaked in 2022, when 198 babies were given it (191 girls, #1,258 among girls’ names). The 172 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 172 | #1,298 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 141 | #1,528 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 137 | #1,554 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 191 | #1,258 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 153 | #1,418 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 160 | #1,367 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 145 | #1,506 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 136 | #1,588 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 121 | #1,748 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 104 | #1,941 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | #1,812 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 80 | #2,321 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,381 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,397 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,530 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,719 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,847 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,505 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,097 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 89 | #2,179 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,305 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,579 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,388 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,185 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,402 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,498 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,418 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,125 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,204 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,676 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,306 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,362 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,578 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,302 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,702 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,481 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,215 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,231 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,500 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,027 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,181 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,218 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,750 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,730 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,171 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,859 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,468 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,345 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,539 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,784 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,397 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,756 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,506 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,712 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,503 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,777 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,104 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,160 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,649 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,074 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,944 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,268 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,655 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,316 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,620 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,438 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,166 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,964 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,365 Americans recorded as Rori, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 172 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rori, and how old are they?
3,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,365 Americans ever recorded as Rori. The median Rori alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,345 people named Rori (2,202 women and girls, 143 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,374 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 115 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 246 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 262 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 898 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,770 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Rori born?
The states with the most babies named Rori are Ohio, Texas and Illinois, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 14 | #709 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 11 | #2,013 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 11 | #841 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,091 | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 8 | #589 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,839 | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 7 | #796 | 0.7× |
| Iowa | 7 | #481 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #2,364 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,024 | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rori with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,557 babies since 1880, Rori is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 172 of their 356 babies (48%), again the 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 Rori
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 Rori and names like it
- Compare Rori and RoyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rori since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Rori.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rori alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.