Torah
Torah was given to 7 girls in 2025, #13,078 among girls’ names; 298 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Torah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Torah?
#13,078 among girls’ names, 2025
Torah fell from #6,702 in 2015 to #13,078 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 4.4 per million.
26 babies in 2010, the peak
Torah peaked in 2010, when 26 girls were given it, #5,397 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,078 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,036 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,942 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,167 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,993 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,489 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,594 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,217 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,413 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,570 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,702 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,781 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,886 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,367 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,105 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,397 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,983 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,271 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,070 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,850 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,986 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,076 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,723 | 4.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,998 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Torah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Torah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Torah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Torah, and how old are they?
An estimated 296 Americans named Torah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 262 people named Torah (250 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 237 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 47,882 babies since 1880, Torah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 201 babies (3.5%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Torah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Torah and names like it
- Compare Torah and ToriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTorah peaked in 2010.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Torah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Torah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.