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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Rory

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#199

up +28 places

2025 births

1,768

up +172 births

All-time births

35,841

5% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2025
1,768 births
Best rank
#199
in 2025
First recorded
1933
#4,066 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1995
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
88 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 20251,768#199Peak
  2. 20241,596#227
  3. 20231,447#242
  4. 20221,229#280
  5. 20211,135#295

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #199 in 2025 · peak births 1,768 in 2025

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 73% boys■ 27% girls

35,841 boys · 13,580 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Rory has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.