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Tori vs Torrence

American parents have registered 38,348 Toris since 1880, against 3,395 Torrences. Tori is still ahead, with 174 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tori Torrence

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 101 years in which either name was published, Tori for 74 years and Torrence for 27 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Tori Torrence
Total US births 38,3483,395
Most in one year 2,26081
Babies in 2025 17418
Estimated living today 37,0003,000
Median age today 2937
Peak year 19941973
Best rank 142nd girls885th boys
Rank in 2025 1,334th6,446th
First recorded 19451912
Girls / boys 37,134 / 1,214191 / 3,204

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 Torrences alive today are over 37; half the Toris are over 29. That is 8 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: Tori and Torrence.