Tory as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Tory

What is the meaning of the name Tory ?

The baby name Tory is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced TAWR-ee.

Tory is English, Latin in Origin.

Tory is chiefly a modern English pet form of Victoria, whose root language is Latin. The earliest form behind it is Latin victoria, an abstract noun for victory, built on vict-, the past-participial stem of vincere, to conquer, with the feminine noun ending -oria. As a short form, Tory is clipped from the -toria sequence of Victoria and given the English hypocoristic -y spelling; Tori is the more transparent phonetic variant.

Victoria had classical and Christian resonance as the Roman personification of victory and as the name of early saints; in Britain it gained further currency through Queen Victoria. Tory appears in U.S. birth records mainly from the mid-20th century, used for girls and boys, peaking in 1977 and declining after the 1990s. Feminine use overlaps with Tori, Torie, and longer cognates such as Viktoria, Vittoria, Vitória, and Wiktoria. The identical English word Tory, from Irish tóraí, pursuer or outlaw, belongs to a separate surname and political history.