Rory
For 2025 the count puts Rory at #199 nationwide, and rising year over year. First recorded 1933, best year 2025, 35,841 bearers across the whole run.
What Rory carries
Rory’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Rory, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Rory since 1933
Rory stands at its girls' all-time peak, #230, right now. Rory stands at its boys' all-time peak, #199, right now.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Rory is most common
Rory is most common in Massachusetts: 0.39% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. Maine (0.31%) and New Hampshire (0.31%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Rory
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Ronan
#247 in 2025 · Celtic
Owen
#31 in 2025 · Celtic
Finn
#206 in 2025 · Celtic
Reese
#192 in 2025
Ryker
#183 in 2025
Kevin
#221 in 2025 · Celtic
Oscar
#223 in 2025 · Celtic
Connor
#166 in 2025 · Celtic
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About Rory
How popular is the name Rory?
For 2025 the count puts Rory at #199 nationwide, and rising year over year. The full curve since 1933 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Rory mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “red”, of Celtic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Rory?
The recipe puts Ronan first, then Finn, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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