Tory
Tory is given to both girls and boys: 22 girls and 24 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,703 among girls’ names and #4,374 among boys’, #5,983 among all names counting both); 10,916 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Tory every year since 1969.
An estimated 10,300 Americans named Tory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 29 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tory mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tory is “a male given name.”
Short for Victoria when used as a female name, and for Victor or Salvatore when used as a male name.
/ˈtoɹ.i/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tory?
#4,374 among boys’ names, 2025
Tory fell from #2,958 in 2015 to #4,374 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 14.1 per million.
466 babies in 1977, the peak
Tory peaked in 1977, when 466 babies were given it (286 boys, #479 among boys’ names). The 46 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,703 | 24 | #4,374 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,940 | 23 | #4,554 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,017 | 27 | #4,102 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,444 | 35 | #3,403 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,927 | 23 | #4,478 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,897 | 38 | #3,068 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,765 | 35 | #3,335 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,446 | 39 | #3,046 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,369 | 42 | #2,883 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,236 | 48 | #2,619 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,064 | 40 | #2,958 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,172 | 28 | #3,771 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,564 | 31 | #3,487 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,040 | 28 | #3,791 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,907 | 41 | #2,896 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,167 | 35 | #3,230 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,084 | 42 | #2,889 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,472 | 47 | #2,674 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,204 | 60 | #2,233 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,987 | 61 | #2,148 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,574 | 69 | #1,863 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,550 | 66 | #1,874 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,795 | 83 | #1,543 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,578 | 75 | #1,616 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,454 | 71 | #1,654 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,963 | 87 | #1,422 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,034 | 83 | #1,416 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,953 | 90 | #1,334 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,729 | 105 | #1,163 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,463 | 116 | #1,057 |
| 1995 | 100 | #1,537 | 148 | #909 |
| 1994 | 150 | #1,180 | 169 | #814 |
| 1993 | 142 | #1,224 | 197 | #744 |
| 1992 | 108 | #1,470 | 208 | #713 |
| 1991 | 91 | #1,649 | 200 | #714 |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,629 | 231 | #665 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,781 | 245 | #638 |
| 1988 | 101 | #1,398 | 200 | #670 |
| 1987 | 88 | #1,484 | 208 | #637 |
| 1986 | 91 | #1,418 | 203 | #630 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,534 | 176 | #669 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,767 | 151 | #712 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,732 | 163 | #671 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,219 | 154 | #703 |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,561 | 131 | #766 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,980 | 158 | #693 |
| 1979 | 75 | #1,554 | 205 | #598 |
| 1978 | 106 | #1,193 | 212 | #578 |
| 1977 | 180 | #834 | 286 | #479 |
| 1976 | 144 | #916 | 220 | #542 |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,726 | 199 | #574 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,911 | 155 | #651 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,451 | 143 | #670 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,676 | 164 | #616 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,371 | 115 | #766 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,950 | 114 | #775 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,393 | 96 | #793 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,753 | 57 | #985 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,322 | 49 | #1,058 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,404 | 51 | #1,026 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,678 | 40 | #1,224 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,230 | 40 | #1,232 |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,834 | 38 | #1,274 |
| 1962 | 34 | #2,024 | 47 | #1,133 |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,514 | 49 | #1,131 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,744 | 47 | #1,150 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,693 | 27 | #1,556 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,174 | 15 | #2,169 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,677 | 18 | #1,948 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,481 | 12 | #2,487 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,560 | 11 | #2,542 |
| 1954 | under 5 | 10 | #2,724 | |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,990 | 10 | #2,697 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,326 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,362 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,702 | 5 | #4,152 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,209 | 5 | #4,165 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,974 | 8 | #2,992 |
| 1947 | under 5 | 8 | #3,076 |
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 Tory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,916 Americans recorded as Tory, 36% are girls and 64% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tory, and how old are they?
10,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 10,916 Americans ever recorded as Tory. The median Tory alive today is 38 years old; half are between 29 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 9,579 people named Tory (3,833 women and girls, 5,746 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 522 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,890 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 788 |
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 Tory born?
The states with the most babies named Tory are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 34% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 725 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 611 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 357 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 346 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 344 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 310 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 254 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 240 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 198 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 173 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Tory is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tory is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1947 it was given 1.7 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 Tory 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, Tory is the second most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 642 babies (7.2%), 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 Tory
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 Tory and names like it
- Compare Tory and TroyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTory peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tory since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Tory.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tory alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.