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Torina vs Torrey

American parents have registered 6,344 Torreys since 1880, against 212 Torinas. Torrey is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Torina against Torrey, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Torina Torrey

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

Torrey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1938 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1968, when Torina had 26 and Torrey had 42.

Side by side

  Torina Torrey
Total US births 2126,344
Most in one year 26340
Babies in 2025 under 525
Estimated living today 2005,900
Median age today 5340
Peak year 19681977
Best rank 2,431st girls462nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked6,446th
First recorded 19681938
Girls / boys 212 / 01,278 / 5,066

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 Torinas alive today are over 53; half the Torreys are over 40. That is 13 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: Torina and Torrey.