Torrance
Torrance is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 18 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,777 among girls’ names and #5,367 among boys’, #9,342 among all names counting both); 4,152 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Torrance every year since 2002.
An estimated 3,870 Americans named Torrance and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 22 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Torrance by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Torrance?
#5,367 among boys’ names, 2025
Torrance fell from #4,068 in 2015 to #5,367 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 10.5 per million.
128 babies in 1973, the peak
Torrance peaked in 1973, when 128 boys were given it, #713 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,777 | 18 | #5,367 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,198 | 9 | #8,917 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,096 | 15 | #6,183 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,149 | 21 | #4,830 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,354 | 20 | #4,916 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,363 | 18 | #5,203 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,066 | 25 | #4,213 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,563 | 17 | #5,518 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,876 | 41 | #2,942 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,356 | 44 | #2,768 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,898 | 26 | #4,068 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,449 | 39 | #2,978 |
| 2013 | 13 | #9,002 | 24 | #4,169 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,091 | 42 | #2,861 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,162 | 43 | #2,790 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,484 | 34 | #3,299 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,527 | 34 | #3,325 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,435 | 45 | #2,748 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,217 | 44 | #2,759 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,914 | 40 | #2,872 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,576 | 36 | #2,949 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,437 | 33 | #3,066 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,603 | 53 | #2,121 |
| 2002 | 73 | #2,258 | 41 | #2,463 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,411 | 51 | #2,079 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 39 | #2,466 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 43 | #2,192 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 51 | #1,920 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 48 | #1,927 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 49 | #1,866 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 52 | #1,730 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 41 | #2,034 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 64 | #1,466 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 77 | #1,288 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 80 | #1,246 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 73 | #1,299 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 81 | #1,190 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 83 | #1,096 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 70 | #1,151 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 57 | #1,295 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 44 | #1,521 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 54 | #1,261 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 43 | #1,467 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 44 | #1,460 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 63 | #1,164 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 85 | #981 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 76 | #1,022 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 108 | #825 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 105 | #833 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 109 | #800 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,512 | 110 | #795 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 118 | #748 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 128 | #713 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 114 | #744 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 119 | #754 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 119 | #757 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 91 | #811 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 55 | #1,005 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 32 | #1,360 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 30 | #1,425 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 24 | #1,620 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 27 | #1,540 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 27 | #1,544 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 11 | #2,661 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 11 | #2,694 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 16 | #2,113 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 19 | #1,913 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 17 | #2,019 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 6 | #3,957 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 7 | #3,516 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #3,185 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,793 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 9 | #2,887 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 6 | #3,704 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 10 | #2,567 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 8 | #2,991 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,741 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,901 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Torrance a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,152 Americans recorded as Torrance, 14% are girls and 86% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Torrance: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Torrance, and how old are they?
3,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 4,152 Americans ever recorded as Torrance. The median Torrance alive today is 36 years old; half are between 22 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,924 people named Torrance (467 women and girls, 2,457 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,807 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 136 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,270 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 926 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 450 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Torrance born?
The states with the most babies named Torrance are Florida, Illinois and Texas, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 311 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 219 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 219 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 208 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 87 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 78 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Mississippi | 54 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 47 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Torrance is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Torrance is most over-represented in Florida: since 1940 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Torrance with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,708 babies since 1880, Torrance is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 42 babies (57%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Torrance
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Torrance and names like it
- Compare Torrance and TorrenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTorrance peaked in 1973.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Torrance since 1910.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Torrance.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Torrance alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.