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Tori vs Toria

American parents have registered 38,348 Toris since 1880, against 1,151 Torias. Tori is still ahead, with 174 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tori against Toria, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tori Toria

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

Tori has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1945 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1958, when Tori had 37 and Toria had 5.

Side by side

  Tori Toria
Total US births 38,3481,151
Most in one year 2,26061
Babies in 2025 174under 5
Estimated living today 37,0001,100
Median age today 2935
Peak year 19941976
Best rank 142nd girls1,619th girls
Rank in 2025 1,334thunranked
First recorded 19451958
Girls / boys 37,134 / 1,2141,151 / 0

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 Torias alive today are over 35; half the Toris are over 29. That is 6 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tori Toria
England and Wales 1,36115
France 3525

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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