Torrey — #4720 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Torrey

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,053 babies named Torrey between 1938 and 2024, spanning 87 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Torrey currently holds the #4720 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 302 babies received it in a single year. Torrey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,266 additional births since 1958.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Torrey performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,877 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Torrey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 298 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Torrey in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Torrey 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 5,053 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.