Name meaning & stats
Tory
Tory means “pursuit”. 10,916 US babies since 1940, peak 1977.
What it means
“pursuit”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1977
10,916 US babies were named Tory between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Tory (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 47% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1977)