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Torean vs Torin

American parents have registered 5,473 Torins since 1880, against 41 Toreans. Torin is still ahead, with 145 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Torean Torin

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 1983, when Torean had 11 and Torin had 20.

Side by side

  Torean Torin
Total US births 415,473
Most in one year 11220
Babies in 2025 under 5145
Estimated living today 405,300
Median age today 3615
Peak year 19832018
Best rank 3,630th boys984th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,347th
First recorded 19831956
Girls / boys 0 / 41218 / 5,255

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 Toreans alive today are over 36; half the Torins are over 15. That is 21 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: Torean and Torin.