Gender-neutral · #4249 in 2025

Tory

Tory: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#4249
Born 2025
24
Peak year
1977

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Tory per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1977. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Tory has been falling: its share of boys born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 8% of its 1977 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 42% of children named Tory were recorded as girls and 58% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.