Torrin
Masculine · “chief”
Torrin is given to both — 947 boys and 100 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Torrin has several genuine neighbors in different languages — an Irish word for a chief, a Scottish hill name, and the Hebrew for a ship's mast. All are real and none is confirmed for this spelling.
How old is the name Torrin?
Torrin first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Torrin alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 900 people named Torrin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Torrin most popular?
Torrin peaked in 1990, reaching #2865 nationally. Today it ranks #3513, 648 places below that high. See the whole 1990 chart.
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Where it comes from
From torran to Torrin
The story of Torrin
Torran in Scottish Gaelic names a little hill, and there are places called Torrin in the Highlands and Islands. Irish Torin and Toran are separate and mean a chief. Modern Israeli naming took toren, a mast, directly as a name. American records hold Torrin, Torin, Torren and Toren, drawing on all of these and on the -in ending that Colin and Austin made familiar.
Meaningscholars disagree
chief, or mast
Irish Torin and Toran are read as chief or lord. Scottish Gaelic torran is a small hill or mound, and there is a Torrin on Skye. Hebrew toren is a ship's mast, used as a modern Israeli name. Any of the three may lie behind an American Torrin.
How the name formed
- torran
- Torrin
Related forms: Torin · Torran · Toren
Pronouncing Torrin
TOR-in
Two syllables, first stressed. Torrin, Torin and Toren are said almost identically.
Nicknames for Torrin
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1968
- Most boys named
- 200936 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2865reached in 1990
- Change vs 2024
- +14.3%32 in 2025, from 28
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Torrin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Torin in Irish — related form
- Torran in Scottish Gaelic — related form
- Toren in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York.
Torrins among us
people named Torrin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 53,377 born in 2025 was named Torrin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Torrin
- #3513
- Torrin on the 2025 chart
- #735
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Torrin went to 32 boys in 2025, but Torin, Toryn and Torryn are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 194, which makes it the 735th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,778 places above the chart.
- Torin140
- Torrin32
- Toryn12
- Torryn10
About 1 boy in 8,805 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,377 for Torrin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Marzell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Torrin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marzell climbed just as high around 1931, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marzell's path sketches the road Torrin is walking now.
Torrin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Torrin is headed
Torrin should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Torrin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Torrin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Three genuine traditions stand nearby, which suits families with more than one heritage.
- Tor is a short form with its own separate history.
- Six letters and two syllables, easy to write.
- Torin, Toren and Torrin are all in use and none is dominant.
- It is close in sound to the English word torrent.
- The three possible sources give three different meanings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Torrins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Torrin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Torrin?
- Torrin is one of 4 recorded spellings. Torin is the more common one — 140 births in 2025 against 32 for Torrin.
- How popular is the name Torrin in 2025?
- Torrin ranks #3513 among US boy names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Torrin?
- About 1 in every 53,377 US boys born in 2025 was named Torrin — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Torrin with classmates?
- Torrin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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