Rory — #226 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Rory

The Social Security Administration has registered 34,067 babies named Rory between 1933 and 2024, spanning 92 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rory currently holds the #226 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,594 babies received it in a single year. Rory is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 12,243 additional births since 1947.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rory performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,990 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Rory shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,784 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Rory in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rory in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 34,067 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.