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How popular is “Tory” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tory” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Tory” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Tory” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Tory” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Tory” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Tory” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tory” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1947 8 0.000002221 8 -100%
1948 13 0.000003765 5 8 -23%
1949 13 0.000003731 8 5 23%
1950 12 0.000003425 7 5 17%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1953 17 0.000004411 7 10 -18%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 -100%
1955 23 0.000005728 12 11 4%
1956 25 0.000006063 13 12 4%
1957 30 0.000007139 12 18 -20%
1958 25 0.000006048 10 15 -20%
1959 70 0.000016835 43 27 23%
1960 90 0.000021667 43 47 -4%
1961 105 0.000025348 56 49 7%
1962 81 0.000020072 34 47 -16%
1963 79 0.000019959 41 38 4%
1964 57 0.000014662 17 40 -40%
1965 62 0.000017101 22 40 -29%
1966 77 0.000022154 26 51 -32%
1967 77 0.000022681 28 49 -27%
1968 67 0.000019832 10 57 -70%
1969 126 0.000036256 30 96 -52%
1970 158 0.00004381 44 114 -44%
1971 148 0.000043119 33 115 -55%
1972 191 0.00006077 27 164 -72%
1973 174 0.000057675 31 143 -64%
1974 201 0.000066118 46 155 -54%
1975 254 0.000084123 55 199 -57%
1976 364 0.000119962 144 220 -21%
1977 466 0.000146703 180 286 -23%
1978 318 0.000100193 106 212 -33%
1979 280 0.00008416 75 205 -46%
1980 212 0.000061547 54 158 -49%
1981 168 0.000048564 37 131 -56%
1982 200 0.000057013 46 154 -54%
1983 226 0.000065255 63 163 -44%
1984 213 0.000061053 62 151 -42%
1985 256 0.000071727 80 176 -38%
1986 294 0.000082652 91 203 -38%
1987 296 0.000082094 88 208 -41%
1988 301 0.00008146 101 200 -33%
1989 321 0.000083497 76 245 -53%
1990 323 0.000081721 92 231 -43%
1991 291 0.000074706 91 200 -37%
1992 316 0.000082264 108 208 -32%
1993 339 0.000089914 142 197 -16%
1994 319 0.000085807 150 169 -6%
1995 248 0.00006772 100 148 -19%
1996 229 0.000062788 113 116 -1%
1997 195 0.000053782 90 105 -8%
1998 168 0.000045674 78 90 -7%
1999 160 0.000043315 77 83 -4%
2000 173 0.000045768 86 87 -1%
2001 135 0.000036064 64 71 -5%
2002 136 0.00003638 61 75 -10%
2003 139 0.000036557 56 83 -19%
2004 132 0.000034547 66 66 0%
2005 136 0.000035372 67 69 -1%
2006 99 0.000025024 38 61 -23%
2007 97 0.000024264 37 60 -24%
2008 95 0.000024169 48 47 1%
2009 71 0.000018586 29 42 -18%
2010 57 0.000015423 22 35 -23%
2011 80 0.000021871 39 41 -3%
2012 66 0.000018046 38 28 15%
2013 75 0.000020572 44 31 17%
2014 64 0.000017268 36 28 13%
2015 77 0.000020806 37 40 -4%
2016 83 0.000022624 35 48 -16%
2017 75 0.000020972 33 42 -12%
2018 71 0.000020194 32 39 -10%
2019 64 0.000018439 29 35 -9%
2020 55 0.000016464 17 38 -38%
2021 44 0.000012987 21 23 -5%
2022 54 0.000015962 19 35 -30%
2023 41 0.000012382 14 27 -32%
2024 44 0.000013219 21 23 -5%

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