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The TORRANCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,295 12405 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 680 7542 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +1615 -4863 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 169 8790 0.001 10
United Kingdom 1,744 3299 0.004 38
Top States for TORRANCE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 229 11400 0.001 7
Georgia 184 4543 0.002 22
New York 174 11185 0.001 9
Florida 152 12065 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 151 10122 0.001 12
Top States for TORRANCE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 15 7680 0.002 23
Georgia 184 4543 0.002 22
Alaska 11 10437 0.002 18
Maine 21 7296 0.002 16
Louisiana 65 7631 0.001 15

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called TORRANCE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called TORRANCE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called TORRANCE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a TORRANCE by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of TORRANCE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the TORRANCE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the TORRANCE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of TORRANCE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 445 19.39
Mixed Race 43 1.87
White (Hispanic) 26 1.13
White (Caucasian) 1,770 77.12
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the TORRANCE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of TORRANCE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of TORRANCE.

Similar names to TORRANCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as TORRANCE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for TORRANCE

The following words are slight variants of TORRANCE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.