Torrey
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to boys 79.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1977 · 302 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,066since 1938
Torrey 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #5,075 | 19 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #4,951 | 19 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #4,226 | 24 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #3,684 | 29 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #3,617 | 29 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #2,955 | 38 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #3,807 | 27 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #4,110 | 24 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #3,072 | 37 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 | #2,684 | 46 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #3,090 | 37 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | #3,083 | 35 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #3,319 | 30 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 | #2,470 | 42 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #2,337 | 44 |
| 2001 | #4,209 | 29 | #2,117 | 49 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 | #2,222 | 44 |
| 1999 | #3,895 | 30 | #1,879 | 52 |
| 1998 | #4,238 | 26 | #1,622 | 64 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 | #1,486 | 71 |
| 1996 | #3,237 | 36 | #1,616 | 60 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | #1,187 | 95 |
| 1994 | #2,661 | 46 | #1,070 | 109 |
| 1993 | #2,217 | 59 | #983 | 121 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | #1,130 | 95 |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 | #885 | 142 |
| 1990 | #3,078 | 36 | #970 | 116 |
| 1989 | #3,165 | 33 | #907 | 125 |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | #832 | 130 |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 | #763 | 144 |
| 1986 | #3,277 | 27 | #828 | 120 |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | #1,033 | 79 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 | #938 | 88 |
| 1983 | #3,687 | 21 | #922 | 92 |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 | #861 | 107 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | #894 | 99 |
| 1980 | #3,853 | 20 | #823 | 114 |
| 1979 | #2,931 | 29 | #667 | 164 |
| 1978 | #2,269 | 40 | #502 | 260 |
| 1977 | #2,341 | 38 | #462 | 302 |
| 1976 | #2,387 | 34 | #506 | 250 |
| 1975 | #2,881 | 25 | #605 | 180 |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 | #677 | 144 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | #678 | 138 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #612 | 166 |
| 1971 | #2,955 | 23 | #673 | 151 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 | #747 | 122 |
| 1969 | #3,318 | 17 | #804 | 92 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | #1,393 | 31 |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 | #1,449 | 28 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | #1,757 | 19 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | #2,084 | 15 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #2,546 | 11 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | #1,839 | 19 |
| 1962 | — | #1,896 | 18 | |
| 1961 | #4,009 | 11 | #1,997 | 17 |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | #1,658 | 24 |
| 1959 | #3,436 | 13 | #2,111 | 15 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | — | #2,494 | 11 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,505 | 6 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,942 | 8 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,905 | 8 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,875 | 8 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
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| 1942 | — | #2,523 | 9 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,656 | 8 | |
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| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1938
The first year at least five boys were named Torrey! It came in at #3,534, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1938–1940, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 1,745 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #6,446)
- 150 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #6,446)
- 2,762 spots since 2015 (#3,684 → #6,446)
- Biggest jump: 589 spots in 1969 (#1,393 → #804)
- Biggest drop: 245 spots in 1992 (#885 → #1,130)
Rise & fade · boys
39 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1938
- Peaked 1977 at #462 (302 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 23 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 1969–1984
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,441
- Highest: 1 in 5,441 boys born in 1977 were named Torrey (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1970s
- 37.1% of all boys named Torrey (1,877) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1959
- Mostly girls until 1958, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #3,534 (1938) | #3,534 |
| 1940s | 41 | #2,523 (1942) | #3,021 |
| 1950s | 78 | #2,111 (1959) | #2,934 |
| 1960s | 274 | #804 (1969) | #1,742 |
| 1970s | 1,877 | #462 (1977) | #613 |
| 1980s | 1,098 | #763 (1987) | #880 |
| 1990s | 925 | #885 (1991) | #1,283 |
| 2000s | 399 | #2,117 (2001) | #2,734 |
| 2010s | 270 | #2,955 (2013) | #3,953 |
| 2020s | 99 | #4,701 (2024) | #5,600 |
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.
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