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Rory

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈɹɔːɹi//
  • //ˈɹoəɹi//

A unisex given name. A male given name from Irish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A unisex given name. A male given name from Irish.

  2. 2

    A unisex given name. A diminutive of the male given name Roderick.

    Rory Sutherland

  3. 3

    A unisex given name. A female given name from Irish.

  4. 4

    A unisex given name. A diminutive of the female given name Aurora.

    Rory Block

Etymology

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Ruairidh and Irish Ruairí (“red-haired king”), from Old Irish Ruaidrí (“red king”).

Forms

plural
Rorys, Rories
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).