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Tori vs Torrian

American parents have registered 38,348 Toris since 1880, against 592 Torrians. Tori is still ahead, with 174 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tori 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

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 2019, when Tori had 307 and Torrian had 27.

Side by side

  Tori Torrian
Total US births 38,348592
Most in one year 2,26027
Babies in 2025 1746
Estimated living today 37,000580
Median age today 2919
Peak year 19942019
Best rank 142nd girls3,899th boys
Rank in 2025 1,334th10,695th
First recorded 19451976
Girls / boys 37,134 / 1,21411 / 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 Toris alive today are over 29; half the Torrians are over 19. That is 10 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: Tori and Torrian.