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Tori vs Torrell

American parents have registered 38,348 Toris since 1880, against 381 Torrells. Tori is still ahead, with 174 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tori 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

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 1965, when Tori had 134 and Torrell had 8.

Side by side

  Tori Torrell
Total US births 38,348381
Most in one year 2,26022
Babies in 2025 174under 5
Estimated living today 37,000360
Median age today 2935
Peak year 19941989
Best rank 142nd girls2,784th boys
Rank in 2025 1,334thunranked
First recorded 19451965
Girls / boys 37,134 / 1,2140 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Torrells alive today are over 35; half the Toris are over 29. That is 6 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: Tori and Torrell.