Toru
The boy's name Toru has been in the national records since 1917, with 60 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1995. About 5 Torus are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Toru
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 60
- Estimated living today
- 5
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 2,240th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1917
How old the living Torus are
born that year still alive today
Of the 60 babies given the name since 1917, about 5 are alive — 8 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Torus
- Toru Sano (born 1963)Japanese association football player and manager
- Toru Yoshikawa (born 1961)Japanese association football player
- Tōru Takemitsu (1930–1996)Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory
- Toru Araiba (born 1979)Japanese association football player
- Tōru Iwatani (born 1955)Japanese video game designer, creator of Pac-Man
- Toru Yoshida (born 1965)Japanese association football player
- Toru Kamikawa (born 1963)Japanese footballer
- Toru Oniki (born 1974)Japanese association football player and manager
People named Toru with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Toru is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Toru peaked:
Related names
Toru against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.