Tory
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · #4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
Given to boys 64.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1977 · 286 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,990since 1947
Tory over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | #4,249 | 24 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #4,433 | 23 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #4,002 | 27 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | #3,344 | 35 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | #4,362 | 23 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 | #2,994 | 39 |
| 2017 | #4,304 | 33 | #2,840 | 42 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 | #2,587 | 48 |
| 2015 | #3,989 | 37 | #2,919 | 40 |
| 2014 | #4,103 | 36 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 | #3,405 | 31 |
| 2012 | #3,988 | 38 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 | #2,847 | 42 |
| 2008 | #3,420 | 48 | #2,632 | 47 |
| 2007 | #4,131 | 37 | #2,213 | 60 |
| 2006 | #3,919 | 38 | #2,126 | 61 |
| 2005 | #2,553 | 67 | #1,854 | 69 |
| 2004 | #2,526 | 66 | #1,857 | 66 |
| 2003 | #2,771 | 56 | #1,538 | 83 |
| 2002 | #2,554 | 61 | #1,609 | 75 |
| 2001 | #2,438 | 64 | #1,648 | 71 |
| 2000 | #1,952 | 86 | #1,420 | 87 |
| 1999 | #2,018 | 77 | #1,408 | 83 |
| 1998 | #1,940 | 78 | #1,322 | 90 |
| 1997 | #1,718 | 90 | #1,161 | 105 |
| 1996 | #1,446 | 113 | #1,049 | 116 |
| 1995 | #1,531 | 100 | #903 | 148 |
| 1994 | #1,177 | 150 | #814 | 169 |
| 1993 | #1,222 | 142 | #743 | 197 |
| 1992 | #1,462 | 108 | #715 | 208 |
| 1991 | #1,642 | 91 | #717 | 200 |
| 1990 | #1,617 | 92 | #665 | 231 |
| 1989 | #1,769 | 76 | #638 | 245 |
| 1988 | #1,392 | 101 | #669 | 200 |
| 1987 | #1,470 | 88 | #635 | 208 |
| 1986 | #1,405 | 91 | #628 | 203 |
| 1985 | #1,523 | 80 | #665 | 176 |
| 1984 | #1,751 | 62 | #710 | 151 |
| 1983 | #1,715 | 63 | #669 | 163 |
| 1982 | #2,185 | 46 | #700 | 154 |
| 1981 | #2,529 | 37 | #760 | 131 |
| 1980 | #1,964 | 54 | #690 | 158 |
| 1979 | #1,543 | 75 | #597 | 205 |
| 1978 | #1,186 | 106 | #577 | 212 |
| 1977 | #832 | 180 | #478 | 286 |
| 1976 | #909 | 144 | #541 | 220 |
| 1975 | #1,713 | 55 | #572 | 199 |
| 1974 | #1,881 | 46 | #647 | 155 |
| 1973 | #2,405 | 31 | #669 | 143 |
| 1972 | #2,598 | 27 | #615 | 164 |
| 1971 | #2,340 | 33 | #764 | 115 |
| 1970 | #1,931 | 44 | #773 | 114 |
| 1969 | #2,350 | 30 | #790 | 96 |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | #968 | 57 |
| 1967 | #2,272 | 28 | #1,043 | 49 |
| 1966 | #2,357 | 26 | #1,016 | 51 |
| 1965 | #2,605 | 22 | #1,206 | 40 |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 | #1,219 | 40 |
| 1963 | #1,815 | 41 | #1,255 | 38 |
| 1962 | #1,989 | 34 | #1,121 | 47 |
| 1961 | #1,499 | 56 | #1,121 | 49 |
| 1960 | #1,725 | 43 | #1,139 | 47 |
| 1959 | #1,672 | 43 | #1,522 | 27 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | #2,093 | 15 |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 | #1,887 | 18 |
| 1956 | #3,321 | 13 | #2,361 | 12 |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 | #2,435 | 11 |
| 1954 | — | #2,592 | 10 | |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | #2,531 | 10 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | #3,690 | 5 |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | #2,788 | 8 |
| 1947 | — | #2,862 | 8 | |
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First appearance
1947
The first year at least five boys were named Tory! It came in at #2,862, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tory
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 184 spots since 2024 (#4,433 → #4,249)
- 1,224 spots since 2020 (#3,025 → #4,249)
- 1,330 spots since 2015 (#2,919 → #4,249)
- Biggest jump: 178 spots in 1969 (#968 → #790)
- Biggest drop: 146 spots in 1996 (#903 → #1,049)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1977 at #478 (286 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 28 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1968–1995
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,746
- Highest: 1 in 5,746 boys born in 1977 were named Tory (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1970s
- 25.9% of all boys named Tory (1,813) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2015
- Mostly girls until 2014, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 21 | #2,788 (1948) | #3,113 |
| 1950s | 108 | #1,522 (1959) | #2,388 |
| 1960s | 514 | #790 (1969) | #1,088 |
| 1970s | 1,813 | #478 (1977) | #623 |
| 1980s | 1,789 | #628 (1986) | #676 |
| 1990s | 1,547 | #665 (1990) | #950 |
| 2000s | 661 | #1,420 (2000) | #1,974 |
| 2010s | 367 | #2,587 (2016) | #3,144 |
| 2020s | 170 | #3,025 (2020) | #3,903 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tory in 1947
boys
#2,862
8 births · 1 in 228,700 boys
Top boys' names in 1947
More about 1947
boys
1,829,599 boys got a published name in 1947; 1 in 228,700 of them was named Tory, which outranked 32.9% of the 4,266 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).