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Torey vs Torina

American parents have registered 4,394 Toreys since 1880, against 212 Torinas. Torey is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Torey Torina

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 1968, when Torey had 28 and Torina had 26.

Side by side

  Torey Torina
Total US births 4,394212
Most in one year 18526
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 4,200200
Median age today 3653
Peak year 19871968
Best rank 844th boys2,431st girls
Rank in 2025 8,910thunranked
First recorded 19531968
Girls / boys 1,421 / 2,973212 / 0

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 Toreys are over 36. That is 17 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: Torey and Torina.