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Tora vs Torrey

American parents have registered 6,344 Torreys since 1880, against 1,016 Toras. Torrey is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tora against Torrey, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tora Torrey

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 90 years in which either name was published, Torrey for 81 years and Tora for 9 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Tora Torrey
Total US births 1,0166,344
Most in one year 53340
Babies in 2025 925
Estimated living today 9405,900
Median age today 4440
Peak year 19761977
Best rank 1,775th girls462nd boys
Rank in 2025 10,107th6,446th
First recorded 18981938
Girls / boys 990 / 261,278 / 5,066

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Toras alive today are over 44; half the Torreys are over 40. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tora and Torrey.