Given name & surname · also Romance
Torres
Torres is a surname from Romance, ultimately from Latin. It is used in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, and 3 other languages.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Torres comes from Romance, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Torres as a surname developed from Torre.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1961. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Torres through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 298
- 298 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1995
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,576 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,576 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 708 as a first name in 2020; 435,998 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Torres’s family of names
In English usage, Torres as a surname developed from the Spanish form Torre. In English usage, Torres as a surname has a related form in TORREZ. In Filipino usage, Torres as a surname has a related form in de Torres.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Torres has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
7 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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