How rare is the name Tori?

35,299 people in the United States have the first name Tori, about 1 in 8,556. It ranks #1,141 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TORI

#1,141

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
35,299
About
1 in 8,556
This common or more
71.9%
Who bears it

Of the 35,299 people named Tori, 69.4% reported their origin as White, 17.1% as Black and 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino. 97.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tori peaked in 1994, when 2,260 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19452025
Peak year
1994
Births that year
2,260
In 2025*
174 ▼92%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 38,348 babies have been given the name since 1945. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Tori by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #408. The largest share of babies named Tori, 37.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1940s#8,74825
1950s#3,041325
1960s#1,3931,587
1970s#9353,621
1980s#9943,692
1990s#40814,850
2000s#6978,853
2010s#1,3533,974
2020s#1,9971,421
Silent Generation 1928–450%
Baby boom 1946–643.2%
Generation X 1965–8012.2%
Millennials 1981–9636.7%
Generation Z 1997–1237.6%
2013 and later10.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Tori is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tori has been most common in Utah (2×), Louisiana (1.9×), and Maryland (1.5×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.46×).

34,123 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tori, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Tori ranks #85,854 of 156,621, with 234 people. See Tori as a last name

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