Torrente

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: lived by a flood stream, Sp. torrente (L torrens, gen. torrentis, from the pres. part, of torrere to rush, seethe (ori¬ ginally ‘to burn, parch’; cf. Torrado))

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

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

Torrente is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 30K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

3,704 people

Sources
157 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

lived by a flood stream, Sp. torrente (L torrens, gen. torrentis, from the pres. part, of torrere to rush, seethe (ori¬ ginally ‘to burn, parch’; cf. Torrado)). Toresson see Thor Torrey see Terry Toretta see Tower Torstensen see Thurston

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Torrente is read(measured from records)

Torrente is one spelling over 4 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.

  • Spanish54%

    lived by a flood stream, Sp. torrente (L torrens, gen. torrentis, from the pres. part, of torrere to rush, seethe (ori¬ ginally ‘to burn, parch’; cf. Torrado)). Toresson see Thor Torrey see Terry Toretta see Tower Torstensen see Thurston

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • English22%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Torrente in English.

  • French7.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Torrente in French.

  • Portuguese7.2%

    torrent (violent flow of liquid)

    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 in the world(measured from records)

Torrente 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 Torrente is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—3,7041 in 14K3.7KTorrente120
PH Philippines—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 30K—Torrente42
ID Indonesia—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 119K—Torrente3
IT Italy—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 45KlistedTorrente72
BR Brazil—1,3781 in 154K1.4K—3
CR Costa Rica#5412171 in 23K217Torrente9
NI Nicaragua#773≈200 est.≈1 in 32K—Torrente8

3,704 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

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

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Also written Torrenté

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, Philippines, United States

    Also written Torrenté

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Torrenté

  • Russian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Ukraine, Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Torrent, Торренте, Torrenté

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Torrenté

32 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)

Torrente is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, ablative singular of torrēns

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

  • In Galician, stream, creek, torrent

    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)

1900195020002050Manuel Torrente, b. 1908Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, b. 1910Pilar Coll, b. 1929Maggie de la Riva, b. 1942Javier Moracho, b. 1957Vincenzo Torrente, b. 1966Javier Torrente, b. 1969Florencia Torrente, b. 1988Raúl Torrente, b. 2001

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)

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Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Torrente
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.7K#1,404
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.7K#1,403
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.4K#6,868
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—217#950
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Torrente mean, and where does it come from?
lived by a flood stream, Sp. torrente (L torrens, gen. torrentis, from the pres. part, of torrere to rush, seethe (ori¬ ginally ‘to burn, parch’; cf. Torrado)). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
How do you pronounce Torrente?
A machine transcription gives /torente/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Torrente have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Torrente, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled torrente.
Where is Torrente most common?
Torrente is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Torrente?
In Spain, the national register counted 3,704 people named Torrente, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Torrente compared with other names?
In Costa Rica, Torrente is the 541st most common surname of 8,899 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.

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, “Torrente” — the 541st most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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