Tõrres
surname · Latin script
Tõrres is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 437,813 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010, which ranks it 37th. In Laos it is the 12th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Torres. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Tõrres is also written ตอร์เรส in Thai.
- ECEcuador1 in 123(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 125
- CRCosta Rica1 in 139
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tõrres itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 123 (inferred from the name graph)
437,813 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Tõrres in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Torres in US United States, ES Spain, EC Ecuador and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Spanish Torres. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Cited for this meaning 8
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Tõrres is found
(measured from records)Tõrres counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 437,813 | 1 in 760 | 438K | Torres | 77 |
| BR Brazil | — | 339,239 | 1 in 624 | 339K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 232,413 | 1 in 196 | 232K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 180,723 | 1 in 277 | 181K | Torres | 27 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 137,658 | 1 in 123 | 138K | Torres | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 36,608 | 1 in 139 | 37K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 27,185 | 1 in 125 | 27K | — | — |
| LA Laos | #12 | — | — | — | Torres | 13 |
437,813 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tõrres mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Torres. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 6 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tõrres?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 438 thousand people named Tõrres, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled torres. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Tõrres most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tõrres is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 123 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tõrres?
- In the United States, the national register counted 437,813 people named Tõrres in 2010, about 1 in 760 residents.
- How common is Tõrres compared with other names?
- In Laos, Tõrres is the 12th most common surname of 46,319 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%B5rresThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tõrres” — ranked 37th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.