Tori

Where Tori comes from

Shortening.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tori
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1945
    First appearance
    #4,556 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Peak, #142
    2,222 babies named Tori — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #286.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Victoria.
Namesakes

No widely known Tori turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.