Torr
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Torr has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 1965. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Torr, 1971
1 in 490,000
Torr 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Torr?
Torr had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1971
- 1 in 490,000
- 7 of 3,432,187 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 253,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1971
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 339,860 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Torr sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1971 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 339,860 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Torr. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Torrs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Torr was born before 1971 — so the typical Torr is around 54 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 53.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 13
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Torr 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1971 (7)
- Years since peak
- 54
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Torr
Torr is not the most common spelling — Terry is, with 30.0% against Torr's <0.01%.
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.
Torr around the world
Where Torr 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 & Wales2003–2003#2,857in 2003
- South Australia2007–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Torr by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Torr
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Torr
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.