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Toriana vs Torin

American parents have registered 5,473 Torins since 1880, against 654 Torianas. Torin is still ahead, with 145 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Toriana against Torin, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Toriana Torin

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

Torin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1956 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Toriana had 37 and Torin had 63.

Side by side

  Toriana Torin
Total US births 6545,473
Most in one year 38220
Babies in 2025 7145
Estimated living today 6505,300
Median age today 2115
Peak year 20012018
Best rank 3,486th girls984th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd1,347th
First recorded 19711956
Girls / boys 649 / 5218 / 5,255

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 Torianas alive today are over 21; half the Torins are over 15. That is 6 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: Toriana and Torin.