About the name Toribio
Toribio belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Toribio first appears in Social Security records in 1914. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1787 in 1929, and in 2024 5 babies received the name — 853 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.