Torres

At the 2020 census, 435,998 Americans bore the surname Torres — 38th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 686.

By the numbers

People: 435,998
Rank: 38th
How common: 1 in 686
Per 100,000: 145.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Romance languages

From roa Torres (Portuguese Torres and Spanish Torres); from torres ("towers"; Portuguese torres and Spanish torres); indicating someone who lived in or near a tower. From Latin turris.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Torres described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 91.4%
White, not Hispanic 5.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Torres

Fernando Torres (born 1984)Spanish footballer and manager
Ferran Torres (born 2000)Spanish footballer
Carlos Alberto Torres (1944–2016)Brazilian association football player and manager
Alexandre Torres (born 1966)Brazilian association football player
Roberto Torres (born 1972)Paraguayan association football player
Fernanda Torres (born 1965)Brazilian actress and writer
Gina Torres (born 1969)American actress
Óliver Torres (born 1994)Spanish footballer

People named Torres with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Torres

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.