Toren
#3,177 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Toren has been given to 981 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #3,177 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 39 recorded.
Babies named Toren, 2025
1 in 87,200
Toren over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Toren?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 87,200
- 38 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 44,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,177
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 60,472 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Toren sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Toren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Torens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Toren was born before 2008 — so the typical Toren is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 30.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 970
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (292).
Is Toren rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +1,686
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,228
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +43
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.06×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 97.4%
- Peak was 2009 (39)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.9% average annual change
Spellings of Toren
Toren is not the most common spelling — Owen is, with 27.6% against Toren's 0.11%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Toren is used
Across 1910–2025, Toren was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 467,222 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Colorado1 in —
- 3Washington1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Toren has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Toren around the world
Where Toren ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–2025#2,440in 2025
- Canada2004–2019#2,084in 2019
- South Australia1989–1989#478in 1989
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Toren by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Toren
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Toren
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.