Tori is a diminutive of Victoria (Latin victoria, victory) — and independently a Japanese word tori (鳥) meaning "bird." Tori Amos (born 1963) — born Myra Ellen Amos — American singer-songwriter and pianist who at age 5 became the youngest student ever admitted to Baltimore's Peabody Institute; her piano-driven 1992 album Little Earthquakes — featuring the song Me and a Gun (an a cappella account of her own rape) — helped reshape 1990s female songwriting. 15 studio albums; eight Grammy nominations. The Japanese torii (鳥居) — Shinto shrine gate.
Subject of Tori Amos's memoir Resistance (2020).
Tori does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tori reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.