Name: Rory
Gender: Male
Usage: Rory, of scottish origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Rory are in general originating from Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Rory across the world, see Ruairi.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Rory is: Red king, Ruddy.
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Numerology of the first name Rory: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Rory is ranked on the 1,363rd position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 344600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.005% of the population. The name Rory has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Rory for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Rory is 12 November.
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History and Origin
Rory is a masculine given name of an Irish and Scottish origin. It is an Anglicised form of the Irish Gaelic name Ruaidhrí/Ruairí ("red king"), the name of medieval Irish kings Ruaidrí na Saide Buide and Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, and the Scottish Gaelic Ruairidh/Ruaraidh.
Since the 1960s in the USA, the name has occasionally been given to females, notably to Rory Kennedy (b. 1968), daughter of Robert F. Kennedy.
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Ruaidhrí (Irish) or Ruairidh, Ruaraidh (Scottish). In Scotland this is further Anglicized to Roderick.
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