Torcia
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: torch (flaming) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Torcia is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- PHPhilippines
- BRBrazil
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of torcer
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Torcia is read
(measured from records)Torcia is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English60%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Torcia in English.
- Italian10%
torch (flaming)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Torcia in Spanish.
- French6.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Torcia in French.
- Portuguese5.7%
first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of torcer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Torcia is found
(measured from records)Torcia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | listed | Torcia | 24 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | Torcia | 11 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | Torcia | 4 |
| IT Italy | — | listed | Torcia | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Torcia | 2 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | Torcia | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Torcia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of tòrcer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Maria Gabriella Torciab. 1958ITItalian hematologist and microbiologist (born 1958)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Torcia come from?
- first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of torcer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Torcia mean?
- In Italian, torch (flaming)
- In which country does Torcia have the most bearers?
- Torcia is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled torcia.
What do you want to know about Torcia?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/torciaThe 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, “Torcia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.