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Torrance vs Torri

American parents have registered 4,152 Torrances since 1880, against 3,439 Torris. Torrance is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Torrance against Torri, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Torrance Torri

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 78 years in which either name was published, Torrance for 58 years and Torri for 20 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Torrance Torri
Total US births 4,1523,439
Most in one year 128155
Babies in 2025 245
Estimated living today 3,9003,300
Median age today 3534
Peak year 19731993
Best rank 710th boys1,243rd girls
Rank in 2025 5,208th14,942nd
First recorded 19401957
Girls / boys 562 / 3,5903,087 / 352

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Torrance Torri
England and Wales 826

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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