Torrence
Torrence is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 13 boys were given it in 2025 (#17,061 among girls’ names and #6,762 among boys’, #11,326 among all names counting both); 3,395 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,980 Americans named Torrence and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 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 Torrence by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Torrence?
#6,762 among boys’ names, 2025
Torrence fell from #4,387 in 2015 to #6,762 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.0 to 7.6 per million.
81 babies in 1973, the peak
Torrence peaked in 1973, when 81 boys were given it, #893 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,762 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,215 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,724 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,121 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 15 | #6,000 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,990 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,097 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,782 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,971 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 33 | #3,433 | 17.4 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,387 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,605 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,050 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 49 | #2,545 | 25.8 |
| 2011 | 50 | #2,501 | 26.3 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,517 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 26 | #4,021 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,411 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,802 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,147 | 17.0 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,645 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,874 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,770 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,810 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,477 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 32 | #2,853 | 16.3 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,502 | 18.7 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,441 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,496 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,323 | 18.5 |
| 1995 | 47 | #1,857 | 24.7 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,171 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,392 | 35.7 |
| 1992 | 57 | #1,563 | 28.5 |
| 1991 | 66 | #1,403 | 32.7 |
| 1990 | 50 | #1,652 | 24.3 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,509 | 27.5 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,280 | 34.0 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,362 | 29.5 |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,215 | 34.2 |
| 1985 | 53 | #1,330 | 28.7 |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,225 | 31.6 |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,119 | 36.3 |
| 1982 | 43 | #1,483 | 23.7 |
| 1981 | 52 | #1,292 | 29.0 |
| 1980 | 48 | #1,376 | 26.9 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,191 | 34.3 |
| 1978 | 66 | #1,077 | 40.2 |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,052 | 41.4 |
| 1976 | 72 | #989 | 45.9 |
| 1975 | 75 | #952 | 48.0 |
| 1974 | 68 | #1,001 | 43.2 |
| 1973 | 81 | #893 | 52.0 |
| 1972 | 74 | #941 | 45.6 |
| 1971 | 76 | #940 | 43.0 |
| 1970 | 72 | #950 | 38.7 |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,082 | 29.1 |
| 1968 | 36 | #1,279 | 20.7 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,179 | 23.5 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,296 | 19.6 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,292 | 19.4 |
| 1964 | 35 | #1,347 | 17.6 |
| 1963 | 32 | #1,398 | 15.8 |
| 1962 | 17 | #2,028 | 8.2 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,346 | 16.9 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,616 | 12.2 |
| 1959 | 27 | #1,555 | 12.6 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,020 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,947 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,354 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,039 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,429 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,384 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,147 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,648 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,428 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,275 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,314 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,845 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,145 | 4.3 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,719 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,999 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,111 | 5.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,930 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,151 | 6.3 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,126 | 6.7 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,339 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,851 | 8.7 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,525 | 6.5 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,359 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,918 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,233 | 7.9 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,614 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,782 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,499 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,862 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,545 | 11.9 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,844 | 6.7 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,884 | 10.7 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,251 | 16.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Torrence a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,395 Americans recorded as Torrence, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Torrence: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Torrence, and how old are they?
2,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 3,395 Americans ever recorded as Torrence. The median Torrence alive today is 38 years old; half are between 22 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,294 people named Torrence (205 women and girls, 2,089 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,971 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 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 229 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 851 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 827 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 735 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 329 |
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 Torrence born?
The states with the most babies named Torrence are Illinois, Florida and Georgia, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 388 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Florida | 242 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 79 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 48 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 30 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 11 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Torrence is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Torrence is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1912 it was given 2.4 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 Torrence 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, Torrence is the second most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 42 babies (43%), again the second 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 Torrence
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 Torrence and names like it
- Compare Torrence and TorranceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTorrence peaked in 1973.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Torrence since 1910.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Torrence.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Torrence alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.