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Torin vs Torrin

American parents have registered 5,473 Torins since 1880, against 1,047 Torrins. Torin is still ahead, with 145 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Torin Torrin

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 1981, when Torin had 11 and Torrin had 6.

Side by side

  Torin Torrin
Total US births 5,4731,047
Most in one year 22044
Babies in 2025 14532
Estimated living today 5,3001,000
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20182009
Best rank 984th boys3,162nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,347th3,513th
First recorded 19561968
Girls / boys 218 / 5,255100 / 947

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Torin Torrin
England and Wales 73585
Scotland 21755

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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