Toru
Toru was last recorded in 1995, when 5 babies were given it; 60 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Toru by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Toru?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,198, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1922, the peak
Toru peaked in 1922, when 14 boys were given it, #2,333 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | #10,198 | 2.6 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,743 | 4.4 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,714 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,309 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,198 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,333 | 12.9 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,710 | 7.1 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,714 | 10.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Toru a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Toru has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Toru: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Toru, and how old are they?
An estimated 5 Americans named Toru and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 428 people named Toru (6 women and girls, 422 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6 born in the U.S. The Census count is 71.3 times 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 18,842 babies since 1880, Toru is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 54 babies recorded by SSA was a Toru (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Toru
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 Toru and names like it
- Compare Toru and ToryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sToru peaked in 1922.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Toru since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Toru.
- Names starting with TMost given first.