Torrey

Where Torrey comes from

Torrey 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. 1938
    First appearance
    #3,534 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    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. 1977
    Peak, #462
    302 babies named Torrey — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #823.
  5. 1985
    Torrey Mitchell born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  6. 1990
    Torrey Craig born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Torrey Craig · American basketball player, born 1990
  • Torrey Mitchell · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1985
  • Torrey Smith · American football player, born 1989
  • Torrey Johnson · Protestant evangelist, 1909–2002
  • Torrey Westrom · American politician, born 1973

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.