Torry

Where Torry comes from

Torry hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #3,525 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1964
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1976
    Torry Holt born
    American football player
  4. 1976
    Peak, #990
    71 babies named Torry — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1979
    Torry Castellano born
    American musician
  6. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,661.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Torry Holt · American football player, born 1976
  • Torry Castellano · American musician, born 1979
  • Torry Pedersen · Norwegian journalist and editor, born 1957
  • Torry Larsen · Norwegian explorer, born 1971
  • Torry McTyer · American football player, born 1995

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.