Given name & surname · also Norse
Torry
“victorious woman; winner; conqueror”·“from the little hills”
Torry is a variant of Tory. In American use, Tory carries the interpretation “victorious woman; winner; conqueror.” Torry is a form of Torrence. One interpretation is “from the little hills.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Torry is a variant of Tory. In American use, Tory carries the interpretation “victorious woman; winner; conqueror.” Torry is a form of Torrence. One interpretation is “from the little hills.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1946. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Torry through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,696
- 1,460 boys · 236 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 87 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −62%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 10 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 71 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,512 as a first name in 2020; 639 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Torry’s family of names
Torry has a related form in Tori. Torry has a related form in Tory. Torry has a related form in Tory.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Terryvariant · English
- Torivariant
- Toryvariant
- Torreyvariant
- Toreyvariant
- Torievariant
- Torrivariant
- Torryelikely variant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Torry
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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