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Tori vs Toriano

American parents have registered 38,348 Toris since 1880, against 1,203 Torianos. Tori is still ahead, with 174 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tori Toriano

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 1972, when Tori had 198 and Toriano had 135.

Side by side

  Tori Toriano
Total US births 38,3481,203
Most in one year 2,260135
Babies in 2025 1745
Estimated living today 37,0001,100
Median age today 2945
Peak year 19941972
Best rank 142nd girls688th boys
Rank in 2025 1,334th12,008th
First recorded 19451970
Girls / boys 37,134 / 1,2140 / 1,203

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 Torianos alive today are over 45; half the Toris are over 29. That is 16 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 Toriano.