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Tori vs Torian

American parents have registered 38,348 Toris since 1880, against 1,770 Torians. Tori is still ahead, with 174 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tori against Torian, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tori Torian

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

Tori has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1945 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Tori had 167 and Torian had 24.

Side by side

  Tori Torian
Total US births 38,3481,770
Most in one year 2,26085
Babies in 2025 17412
Estimated living today 37,0001,700
Median age today 2925
Peak year 19941991
Best rank 142nd girls1,254th boys
Rank in 2025 1,334th6,803rd
First recorded 19451971
Girls / boys 37,134 / 1,214225 / 1,545

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 Toris alive today are over 29; half the Torians are over 25. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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