Toren
Toren was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,177 among boys’ names; 981 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Toren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Toren?
#3,177 among boys’ names, 2025
Toren rose from #3,220 in 2015 to #3,177 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 22.2 per million.
39 babies in 2009, the peak
Toren peaked in 2009, when 39 boys were given it, #3,038 among boys’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,177 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,863 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,436 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,416 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,107 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,405 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,185 | 20.6 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,588 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,875 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,085 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,220 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,030 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,050 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,880 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,638 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,441 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,038 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,274 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,184 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,087 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,044 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,986 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,431 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,306 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,275 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,550 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,686 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,179 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,217 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,998 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,540 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,265 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,798 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,323 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,515 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,357 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,828 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,421 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,935 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,290 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,108 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,516 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,157 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,181 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,793 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,685 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,872 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,105 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,515 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #4,003 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,658 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,557 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,956 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Toren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 981 Americans recorded as Toren, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 38 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Toren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Toren, and how old are they?
An estimated 954 Americans named Toren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 882 people named Toren (110 women and girls, 772 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 824 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 11,949 babies since 1880, Toren is the fourth most given (8.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 291 babies (13%), the second 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 Toren
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 Toren and names like it
- Compare Toren and TorinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Toren since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Toren.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Toren alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.