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Toribio vs Torrance

American parents have registered 4,152 Torrances since 1880, against 861 Toribios. Torrance is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Toribio against Torrance, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Toribio Torrance

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 107 years in which either name was published, Torrance for 70 years and Toribio for 37 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Toribio Torrance
Total US births 8614,152
Most in one year 19128
Babies in 2025 824
Estimated living today 5703,900
Median age today 3535
Peak year 19291973
Best rank 1,731st boys710th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th5,208th
First recorded 19141940
Girls / boys 0 / 861562 / 3,590

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.

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 Torrance.