Humanverse

Torin vs Torrian

American parents have registered 5,473 Torins since 1880, against 592 Torrians. Torin is still ahead, with 145 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Torin 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

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 1979, when Torin had 14 and Torrian had 6.

Side by side

  Torin Torrian
Total US births 5,473592
Most in one year 22027
Babies in 2025 1456
Estimated living today 5,300580
Median age today 1519
Peak year 20182019
Best rank 984th boys3,899th boys
Rank in 2025 1,347th10,695th
First recorded 19561976
Girls / boys 218 / 5,25511 / 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 Torrians alive today are over 19; half the Torins are over 15. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Torin and Torrian.