Torey vs Torrey

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Torey 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 82 years in which either name was published, Torrey for 72 years and Torey for 10 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

• 1938–2025 Torrey ahead, apart from 5 short spells

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Torreys alive today are over 40; half the Toreys are over 36. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Torey Louisiana (8.3×), Georgia (3.7×), Alabama (3.2×)
• Torrey Georgia (3.6×), Florida (2.5×), North Carolina (2.5×)

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

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