Torrey
Torrey is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 13 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,816 among girls’ names and #6,763 among boys’, #9,053 among all names counting both); 6,344 Americans have been recorded with it since 1938 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,910 Americans named Torrey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 31 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Torrey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Torrey?
#6,763 among boys’ names, 2025
Torrey fell from #3,765 in 2015 to #6,763 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 7.6 per million.
340 babies in 1977, the peak
Torrey peaked in 1977, when 340 babies were given it (302 boys, #463 among boys’ names). The 25 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,816 | 13 | #6,763 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,356 | 21 | #4,864 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,255 | 19 | #5,229 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,620 | 14 | #6,439 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,932 | 19 | #5,087 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,490 | 13 | #6,581 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,695 | 19 | #5,131 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,369 | 24 | #4,338 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,993 | 23 | #4,447 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,793 | 20 | #4,923 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,264 | 29 | #3,765 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,976 | 29 | #3,682 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,191 | 38 | #2,990 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,131 | 27 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,127 | 24 | #4,202 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,194 | 37 | #3,122 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,117 | 40 | #2,982 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,929 | 46 | #2,712 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,071 | 37 | #3,127 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,817 | 35 | #3,148 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,113 | 30 | #3,378 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,362 | 32 | #3,146 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,557 | 42 | #2,499 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,018 | 44 | #2,365 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,308 | 49 | #2,142 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,279 | 44 | #2,247 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,956 | 52 | #1,895 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,357 | 64 | #1,636 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,999 | 71 | #1,495 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,295 | 60 | #1,631 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,727 | 95 | #1,188 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,694 | 109 | #1,070 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,235 | 121 | #986 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,208 | 95 | #1,130 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,047 | 142 | #884 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,147 | 116 | #974 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,242 | 125 | #907 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,576 | 130 | #833 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,323 | 144 | #768 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,355 | 120 | #830 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,613 | 79 | #1,040 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,956 | 88 | #942 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,799 | 92 | #923 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,768 | 107 | #864 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,728 | 99 | #898 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,985 | 114 | #827 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,993 | 164 | #670 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,302 | 260 | #504 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,377 | 302 | #463 |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,436 | 250 | #506 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,961 | 180 | #606 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,850 | 144 | #682 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,349 | 138 | #680 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,519 | 166 | #614 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,058 | 151 | #675 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,476 | 122 | #748 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,449 | 92 | #807 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,473 | 31 | #1,424 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,282 | 28 | #1,470 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,774 | 19 | #1,808 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,771 | 15 | #2,166 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,732 | 11 | #2,652 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,540 | 19 | #1,894 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 18 | #1,953 | |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,215 | 17 | #2,063 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,672 | 24 | #1,688 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,603 | 15 | #2,189 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,957 | 5 | #4,469 |
| 1957 | under 5 | 11 | #2,623 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,193 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,852 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 8 | #3,151 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 8 | #3,126 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 8 | #3,082 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 9 | #2,835 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 6 | #3,660 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #4,222 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,146 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,301 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 9 | #2,699 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 8 | #2,856 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,993 |
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 Torrey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,344 Americans recorded as Torrey, 20% are girls and 80% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Torrey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Torrey, and how old are they?
5,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 6,344 Americans ever recorded as Torrey. The median Torrey alive today is 41 years old; half are between 31 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 4,890 people named Torrey (1,122 women and girls, 3,768 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,868 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 175 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,250 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 954 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 396 |
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 Torrey born?
The states with the most babies named Torrey are California, Georgia and Texas, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 540 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 280 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 252 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 240 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 213 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 200 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 190 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 111 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 107 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 97 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Torrey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Torrey is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1938 it was given 1.6 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 Torrey 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 25,126 babies since 1880, Torrey is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 79 babies (32%), again the second 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 Torrey
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 Torrey and names like it
- Compare Torrey and ToryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTorrey peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Torrey since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Torrey.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Torrey alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.