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The TORY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 424 47120 0 2
United States (1880 census) 198 19450 0 4
Change since 1880 +226 -27670 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 162 9143 0.001 10
United Kingdom 191 16929 0 4
Top States for TORY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 54 53313 0.000 2
Georgia 54 13670 0.001 7
Florida 45 45494 0.000 3
Tennessee 38 13966 0.001 7
Texas 29 50871 0.000 1
Top States for TORY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 24 10436 0.001 8
Maine 10 18792 0.001 8
Tennessee 38 13966 0.001 7
Georgia 54 13670 0.001 7
West Virginia 8 19178 0.000 4

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called TORY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called TORY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called TORY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a TORY by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of TORY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the TORY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the TORY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of TORY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 252 59.43
White (Caucasian) 146 34.43
White (Hispanic) 14 3.3
Asian/Pacific 5 1.18
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the TORY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of TORY in historical publications

TORY. Sea Torry.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to TORY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as TORY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for TORY

The following words are slight variants of TORY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.