Torrence

At the 2020 census, 6,235 Americans bore the surname Torrence — 5,399th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 47,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,235
Rank: 5,399th
How common: 1 in 47,900
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 45.8%
White, not Hispanic 45.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Torrence

Gwen Torrence (born 1965)American sprinter
Nate Torrence (born 1977)American actor
Ernest Torrence (1878–1933)British-born American actor
David Torrence (1864–1951)British actor

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

Surnames like Torrence

Also a first name

Torrence has been given to 3,395 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 1973. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.