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Toribio vs Torin

American parents have registered 5,473 Torins since 1880, against 861 Toribios. Torin is still ahead, with 145 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Toribio 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

Of the 106 years in which either name was published, Torin for 66 years and Toribio for 40 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Toribio Torin
Total US births 8615,473
Most in one year 19220
Babies in 2025 8145
Estimated living today 5705,300
Median age today 3515
Peak year 19292018
Best rank 1,731st boys984th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th1,347th
First recorded 19141956
Girls / boys 0 / 861218 / 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 Toribios alive today are over 35; half the Torins are over 15. That is 20 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: Toribio and Torin.