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Torian vs Torin

American parents have registered 5,473 Torins since 1880, against 1,770 Torians. Torin is still ahead, with 145 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Torian against Torin, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Torian Torin

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

Of the 70 years in which either name was published, Torin for 63 years and Torian for 7 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Torian Torin
Total US births 1,7705,473
Most in one year 85220
Babies in 2025 12145
Estimated living today 1,7005,300
Median age today 2515
Peak year 19912018
Best rank 1,254th boys984th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rd1,347th
First recorded 19711956
Girls / boys 225 / 1,545218 / 5,255

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 Torians alive today are over 25; half the Torins are over 15. That is 10 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: Torian and Torin.