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Torean vs Torey

American parents have registered 4,394 Toreys since 1880, against 41 Toreans. Torey is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Torean against Torey, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Torean Torey

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

Torey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1953 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1983, when Torean had 11 and Torey had 98.

Side by side

  Torean Torey
Total US births 414,394
Most in one year 11185
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 404,200
Median age today 3636
Peak year 19831987
Best rank 3,630th boys844th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,910th
First recorded 19831953
Girls / boys 0 / 411,421 / 2,973

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.

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