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Torey vs Torrell

American parents have registered 4,394 Toreys since 1880, against 381 Torrells. Torey is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Torey Torrell

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 2018, when Torey had 14 and Torrell had 7.

Side by side

  Torey Torrell
Total US births 4,394381
Most in one year 18522
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 4,200360
Median age today 3635
Peak year 19871989
Best rank 844th boys2,784th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910thunranked
First recorded 19531965
Girls / boys 1,421 / 2,9730 / 381

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: Torey and Torrell.