Tori
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Tori
A more modern nickname for Victoria than Vicky, Tori is used fairly frequently on its own, kept in the public eye by singer Tori Amos and actress Tori Spelling. Still, it's far from fashionable, sinking in the polls significantly since reaching a peak of Number 142 in 1994. It dropped out of the US popularity charts in 2021, and even earlier in the UK, perhaps owing to the sound-alike political party nickname.
Nevertheless, Tori was still chosen for 200 girls in a recent year, and it has the multicultural angle of also being a Japanese name meaning "bird" (or "peach tree", "peach and plum" or "winter jasmine" depending on the kanji elements used).
Tori is also given to boys, where it ranks #10575 in the US.
Pronounced TOR-ee.
As of October 2026, Tori ranked #1337 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #142 in 1994.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #728 | 385 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #821 | 343 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #787 | 362 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #788 | 350 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #824 | 330 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #904 | 294 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #846 | 323 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #998 | 257 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #1,022 | 253 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #1,174 | 204 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #1,412 | 158 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #1,337 | 167 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Tori for girls
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Tori on lists
Famous Toris
- Victoria "Tori" PraverGirl
American model
- Tori SparksGirl
American singer,songwriter
- Myra Ellen "Tori" AmosGirl
American singer,songwriter
- Victoria Davey "Tori" SpellingGirl
American actress
- Victoria Loren "Tori" KellyGirl
American singer,songwriter
- Tori Layne BatesGirl
7th child (4th daughter) of the reality TV show "Bringing Up Bates" family
- Tori Patton RoloffGirl
American reality TV personality; wife of Zach Roloff of TV's "Little People, Big World"
- Victoria Marie "Tori" FiorenzaGirl
American beauty queen and reality TV personality
- Tori Dawn ThompsonGirl
American singer of duo The Thompson Sisters
- ToriGirl
ring name of Terri Poch, American pro wrestler
- Tori CarringtonGirl
pen name of American romance novelists Tony Karayianni and Lori Schlachter Karayianni
Tori in pop culture
- Tori VegaGirl
character on TV's "Victorious" played by Victoria Justice
- Tori WuGirl
character in the "Divergent" series
- Tori KimuraGirl
character in "The Sims 3" computer game
- Tori HansonGirl
Blue Ranger in "Power Rangers: Ninja Storm"
- Tori AvalonGirl
character in the anime/manga "Cardcaptors"