Tori
Tori was given to 167 girls in 2025, #1,337 among girls’ names; 38,348 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 37,300 Americans named Tori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tori mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tori is “a diminutive of the female given name Victoria.”
/ˈtoɹ.i/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tori?
#1,337 among girls’ names, 2025
Tori fell from #821 in 2015 to #1,337 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.19 to 0.10 per 1,000.
2,260 babies in 1994, the peak
Tori peaked in 1994, when 2,260 babies were given it (2,222 girls, #142 among girls’ names). The 174 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 167 | #1,337 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 159 | #1,413 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 204 | #1,178 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 254 | #1,021 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 257 | #999 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 323 | #846 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 296 | #902 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 330 | #824 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 350 | #788 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 362 | #787 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 343 | #821 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 385 | #728 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 408 | #694 | 0.23 |
| 2012 | 422 | #672 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 458 | #627 | 0.26 |
| 2010 | 520 | #559 | 0.29 |
| 2009 | 551 | #555 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 645 | #490 | 0.34 |
| 2007 | 674 | #479 | 0.35 |
| 2006 | 697 | #452 | 0.37 |
| 2005 | 796 | #393 | 0.43 |
| 2004 | 843 | #372 | 0.46 |
| 2003 | 1,035 | #297 | 0.57 |
| 2002 | 1,085 | #286 | 0.60 |
| 2001 | 1,132 | #278 | 0.63 |
| 2000 | 1,247 | #262 | 0.69 |
| 1999 | 1,319 | #240 | 0.74 |
| 1998 | 1,332 | #233 | 0.75 |
| 1997 | 1,409 | #209 | 0.81 |
| 1996 | 1,615 | #185 | 0.92 |
| 1995 | 1,992 | #161 | 1.1 |
| 1994 | 2,222 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 1993 | 2,059 | #152 | 1.1 |
| 1992 | 1,332 | #218 | 0.72 |
| 1991 | 729 | #354 | 0.39 |
| 1990 | 526 | #466 | 0.28 |
| 1989 | 448 | #523 | 0.24 |
| 1988 | 463 | #490 | 0.26 |
| 1987 | 494 | #446 | 0.28 |
| 1986 | 392 | #524 | 0.23 |
| 1985 | 292 | #639 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 292 | #614 | 0.17 |
| 1983 | 305 | #587 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 214 | #770 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 240 | #705 | 0.14 |
| 1980 | 301 | #612 | 0.18 |
| 1979 | 345 | #543 | 0.21 |
| 1978 | 542 | #386 | 0.35 |
| 1977 | 649 | #345 | 0.42 |
| 1976 | 602 | #354 | 0.41 |
| 1975 | 318 | #545 | 0.22 |
| 1974 | 190 | #748 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 166 | #794 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 177 | #777 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 153 | #879 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 185 | #773 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 143 | #880 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 145 | #853 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 142 | #849 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 135 | #865 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 129 | #882 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 176 | #779 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 166 | #807 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 149 | #866 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 192 | #751 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 161 | #824 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 146 | #847 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,816 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,898 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,891 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,275 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,589 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,669 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,096 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,250 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,379 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,859 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,178 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 38,348 Americans recorded as Tori, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 167 girls and 7 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tori, and how old are they?
37,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 38,348 Americans ever recorded as Tori. The median Tori alive today is 30 years old; half are between 22 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 35,299 people named Tori (34,321 women and girls, 978 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 36,263 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,020 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,370 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,940 |
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 Tori born?
The states with the most babies named Tori are Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,781 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,319 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #922 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 10 | #545 | 1.2× |
| California | 9 | #2,266 | 0.6× |
| New York | 9 | #1,518 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,065 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 9 | #839 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,052 | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #674 | 1.8× |
Where Tori is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tori is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1945 it was given 1.8 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 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 Tori 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 52,040 babies since 1880, Tori is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 174 of their 227 babies (77%), 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 Tori
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 Tori and names like it
- Compare Tori and TorrieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTori peaked in 1994.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tori since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Tori.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tori alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.