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Torey vs Toriano

American parents have registered 4,394 Toreys since 1880, against 1,203 Torianos. Torey is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Torey Toriano

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 68 years in which either name was published, Torey for 63 years and Toriano for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Torey Toriano
Total US births 4,3941,203
Most in one year 185135
Babies in 2025 85
Estimated living today 4,2001,100
Median age today 3645
Peak year 19871972
Best rank 844th boys688th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th12,008th
First recorded 19531970
Girls / boys 1,421 / 2,9730 / 1,203

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 Torianos alive today are over 45; half the Toreys are over 36. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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