Tory — #4439 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tory

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,966 babies named Tory between 1947 and 2024, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tory currently holds the #4439 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 286 babies received it in a single year. Tory is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,904 additional births since 1948.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tory performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,813 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Tory shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 432 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Tory in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tory 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 6,966 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.