Torey
Torey was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,619 among boys’ names; 4,394 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,160 Americans named Torey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 30 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Torey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Torey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Torey is “a diminutive of the female given name Victoria.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Torey?
#9,619 among boys’ names, 2025
Torey fell from #4,687 in 2015 to #9,619 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 4.7 per million.
185 babies in 1993, the peak
Torey peaked in 1993, when 185 babies were given it (107 boys, #1,079 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 8 | #9,619 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 10 | #8,254 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 15 | #6,182 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 9 | #8,910 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 13 | #6,641 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 21 | #4,680 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 21 | #4,785 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 14 | #6,304 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 22 | #4,575 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,079 | 24 | #4,311 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,374 | 21 | #4,687 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 17 | #5,460 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,068 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,368 | 15 | #5,961 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,606 | 20 | #4,806 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,193 | 17 | #5,446 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,788 | 26 | #4,020 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,533 | 24 | #4,249 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,490 | 27 | #3,884 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,354 | 32 | #3,377 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,868 | 34 | #3,078 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,056 | 33 | #3,065 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,779 | 22 | #3,962 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,111 | 42 | #2,420 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,824 | 35 | #2,731 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,969 | 34 | #2,723 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,300 | 54 | #1,848 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,908 | 48 | #2,007 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,360 | 41 | #2,157 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,294 | 60 | #1,630 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,476 | 67 | #1,460 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,345 | 83 | #1,283 |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,848 | 107 | #1,079 |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,312 | 106 | #1,064 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,695 | 116 | #992 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,394 | 114 | #987 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,361 | 103 | #1,012 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,471 | 96 | #991 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,652 | 123 | #844 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,773 | 77 | #1,064 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,973 | 76 | #1,063 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,779 | 74 | #1,039 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,845 | 67 | #1,092 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,522 | 74 | #1,062 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,993 | 63 | #1,163 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,500 | 81 | #1,009 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,220 | 77 | #1,015 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,567 | 97 | #876 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,756 | 102 | #852 |
| 1976 | 53 | #1,790 | 94 | #865 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,764 | 62 | #1,064 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,849 | 43 | #1,307 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,620 | 47 | #1,221 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,517 | 51 | #1,147 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,586 | 32 | #1,554 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 33 | #1,490 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,615 | 32 | #1,433 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,953 | 22 | #1,726 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 24 | #1,606 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,512 | 12 | #2,451 |
| 1965 | under 5 | 18 | #1,914 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 10 | #2,835 | |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,517 | 7 | #3,624 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,157 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,829 | 5 | #4,616 |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,578 | 6 | #4,012 |
| 1959 | 103 | #1,053 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #4,287 |
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 Torey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,394 Americans recorded as Torey, 32% are girls and 68% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Torey every year since 1976. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Torey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Torey, and how old are they?
4,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 4,394 Americans ever recorded as Torey. The median Torey alive today is 37 years old; half are between 30 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 3,470 people named Torey (1,266 women and girls, 2,204 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,151 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 194 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 977 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,980 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 789 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 219 |
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 Torey born?
The states with the most babies named Torey are Louisiana, Texas and California, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 173 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Texas | 158 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 140 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 118 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 106 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 68 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 58 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 55 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 47 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 40 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Torey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Torey is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1953 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Torey 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 244,108 babies since 1880, Torey is the fourth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 642 babies (1.2%), 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 Torey
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 Torey and names like it
- Compare Torey and TroyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTorey peaked in 1993.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Torey since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Torey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Torey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.