Tory

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Tory: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Tory: Recorded since 1996, with a gap of 10 years, its highest recorded position is #358, and it stood at #3,254 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#358highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Tory's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2013

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2002	#4137
2013	#5742

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 10 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3254 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Tory appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 10 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 43 births with the name.

Tory across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Tory's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#2863 (1996)	#3254 (2024)	10 of 29	43 (1996–2024)	6 (2021)
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#3900 (1999)	#5742 (2013)	3 of 15	9 (1999–2013)	3 (1999)

Tory by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Tory in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2010sbusiest	20	5 of 10	4
2020s	20	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Tory appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #358 in Northern Ireland in 1997.

Tory's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #358, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 1 year separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
6 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
6separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
10 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period10 to 19 years missing →
#3,254position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
1 yearyears between the first and last registrar to record itWithin 2 years →
6births registered in its largest year, 2021Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cortney · #358, 16y
Kelly-Marie · #358, 10y
Erin-Rose · #355, 14y
Kelli · #362, 15y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alanis · #358, 29y
Aqib · #358, 29y
Cortney · #358, 16y
Ella-May · #358, 28y

Tory was ranked #358 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Tory and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Tory without appearing here.

Tory moved ahead of

Espen Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #4107 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.
Jade Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.
Brett Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #3523 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #4270.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #358 in Northern Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Tory

Tory at a glance

What stands out in Tory's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tory across 2 official records

Tory by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Tory appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Tory

Tory and the names beside it

Tory moved ahead of

Tory at a glance

What stands out in Tory's record

Tory across 2 official records

Tory by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Tory appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Tory

Tory and the names beside it

Tory moved ahead of