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Torey vs Torrian

American parents have registered 4,394 Toreys since 1880, against 592 Torrians. Torey is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Torey Torrian

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 65 years and Torrian for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Torey Torrian
Total US births 4,394592
Most in one year 18527
Babies in 2025 86
Estimated living today 4,200580
Median age today 3619
Peak year 19872019
Best rank 844th boys3,899th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th10,695th
First recorded 19531976
Girls / boys 1,421 / 2,97311 / 581

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 Torrians are over 19. That is 17 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 Torrian.