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Tori vs Torren

American parents have registered 38,348 Toris since 1880, against 890 Torrens. Tori is still ahead, with 174 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tori Torren

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 2025, when Tori had 174 and Torren had 34.

Side by side

  Tori Torren
Total US births 38,348890
Most in one year 2,26051
Babies in 2025 17434
Estimated living today 37,000880
Median age today 2914
Peak year 19942019
Best rank 142nd girls2,736th boys
Rank in 2025 1,334th3,379th
First recorded 19451970
Girls / boys 37,134 / 1,21439 / 851

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 Toris alive today are over 29; half the Torrens are over 14. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Tori Torren
England and Wales 1,36126
Scotland 8911

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 Torren.