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Torey vs Toriana

American parents have registered 4,394 Toreys since 1880, against 654 Torianas. Torey is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Torey against Toriana, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Torey Toriana

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

Torey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1953 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Torey had 13 and Toriana had 13.

Side by side

  Torey Toriana
Total US births 4,394654
Most in one year 18538
Babies in 2025 87
Estimated living today 4,200650
Median age today 3621
Peak year 19872001
Best rank 844th boys3,486th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910th11,932nd
First recorded 19531971
Girls / boys 1,421 / 2,973649 / 5

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 Toreys alive today are over 36; half the Torianas are over 21. That is 15 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: Torey and Toriana.