Torres

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Person from places called Torres in Spain or Portugal, from a word meaning ‘towers’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/tores/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Torres is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 8th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 138(inferred from the name graph)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 143
  • COColombia≈1 in 171

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 Torres itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

437,813 people, 2010

#86 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
538 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 123 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TorresLatin(measured from records)
ТорресCyrillic(measured from records)
ΤορρεςGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Torrez in BR Brazil, BO Bolivia, Tórrez in CR Costa Rica and Tôrres in UY Uruguay.

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)

Person from places called Torres in Spain or Portugal, from a word meaning ‘towers’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Torres 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.

Where Torres is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#106437,8131 in 760438KTorres538
BR Brazil—339,2391 in 624339KTorrez51
CO Colombia#12≈290,000 est.≈1 in 171228Torres222
AR Argentina#14232,4131 in 196232KTorres177
PE Peru#17≈230,000 est.≈1 in 138497KTorres155
VE Venezuela#14≈200,000 est.≈1 in 1431.2KTorres129
EC Ecuador—137,6581 in 123138KTorres131
BO Bolivia#8≈48,000 est.≈1 in 244—Torrez80
CR Costa Rica—36,6081 in 13937KTórrez126
UY Uruguay—27,1851 in 12527KTôrres92

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; the pe-reniec-name-freq register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Torres is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Törrës, Törres, Torres', Tôrres, Torrës

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Tôrres, Torrés, Törres, Tórres, Torre-S

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Torrès, Torrés

  • Lao surname32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Törrës, Törres, Tórrés, ตอร์เรส, T'Orres

  • Indonesian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Tórrês, Tórres, Toŕres, Ťőřŕëš, Tôrres

101 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Torres is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Place name from the town of Torres, Estremadura in Portugal.

    as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

  • In English, A topographic surname from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Towers of Spanish and Portuguese origin.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, from the tower

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In English, Islands, island group, Pacific Ocean

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Italian, redução de Torrese ou hab. de Torres

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Manuel Montt, b. 1809Andrés Segovia, b. 1893Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, b. 1929Dara Torres, b. 1967Fernando Torres, b. 1984Eve Torres, b. 1984Fernando Llorente, b. 1985Juan Francisco Torres Belén, b. 1985Adria Arjona, b. 1992Ferran Torres, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Torres,Dear Torres, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Torres,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 66 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Torres
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PE PeruRENIEC — Apellidos más frecuentes (national DNI bearer counts, 2025)2025497K#13
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010438K#37
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020436K#38
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names2019433K#10
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—339K#123
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000325K#50
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—232K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024138K#8
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—37K#59
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—27K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20241.2K—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—228#10

Reference works 7

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Torres mean, and where does it come from?
Person from places called Torres in Spain or Portugal, from a word meaning ‘towers’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Torres?
A machine transcription gives /tores/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Torres have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 438 thousand people named Torres, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled torres.
Where is Torres most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Torres 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 Torres?
In the United States, the national register counted 437,813 people named Torres in 2010, about 1 in 760 residents.
How common is Torres compared with other names?
In the United States, Torres is the 106th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Torres” — the 106th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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