Meaning not yet researched.
Torrance: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #713 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #713 in 1973; #5,369 in 2025. About 75% of babies named Torrance in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,369 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #713.
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Torrance: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #713 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 128 (1973).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Torrance, making it the 5,369th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,553 places from #8,922 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 9 boys named Torrance in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #713, reached in 1973. That year also had the most boys given the name: 128. For comparison, it was #4,070 in 2015 and #2,568 in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Torrance, making it the 14,781st most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,578 places from #10,203 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 10 girls named Torrance in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,261, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 73. For comparison, it was #8,903 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Torrance in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 5 babies. In all, 4,152 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,111 babies named Torrance.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 228 US boys were named Torrance; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Torrence (3,395 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Torance and Torence are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Torance (81), Torence (80).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Torrance in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,781 | 18 | #5,369 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,203 | 9 | #8,922 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,101 | 15 | #6,188 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,154 | 21 | #4,834 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,359 | 20 | #4,920 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,368 | 18 | #5,207 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,071 | 25 | #4,217 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,568 | 17 | #5,522 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,880 | 41 | #2,943 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,359 | 44 | #2,769 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,903 | 26 | #4,070 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,454 | 39 | #2,980 |
| 2013 | 13 | #9,007 | 24 | #4,171 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,094 | 42 | #2,863 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,166 | 43 | #2,791 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,487 | 34 | #3,300 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,529 | 34 | #3,327 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,439 | 45 | #2,749 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,220 | 44 | #2,760 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,915 | 40 | #2,873 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,580 | 36 | #2,953 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,441 | 33 | #3,070 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,606 | 53 | #2,125 |
| 2002 | 73 | #2,261 | 41 | #2,467 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,415 | 51 | #2,083 |
| 2000 | — | — | 39 | #2,470 |
| 1999 | — | — | 43 | #2,195 |
| 1998 | — | — | 51 | #1,923 |
| 1997 | — | — | 48 | #1,930 |
| 1996 | — | — | 49 | #1,870 |
| 1995 | — | — | 52 | #1,735 |
| 1994 | — | — | 41 | #2,039 |
| 1993 | — | — | 64 | #1,471 |
| 1992 | — | — | 77 | #1,293 |
| 1991 | — | — | 80 | #1,252 |
| 1990 | — | — | 73 | #1,304 |
| 1989 | — | — | 81 | #1,194 |
| 1988 | — | — | 83 | #1,098 |
| 1987 | — | — | 70 | #1,152 |
| 1986 | — | — | 57 | #1,296 |
| 1985 | — | — | 44 | #1,522 |
| 1984 | — | — | 54 | #1,262 |
| 1983 | — | — | 43 | #1,468 |
| 1982 | — | — | 44 | #1,461 |
| 1981 | — | — | 63 | #1,164 |
| 1980 | — | — | 85 | #981 |
| 1979 | — | — | 76 | #1,022 |
| 1978 | — | — | 108 | #825 |
| 1977 | — | — | 105 | #833 |
| 1976 | — | — | 109 | #800 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,514 | 110 | #795 |
| 1974 | — | — | 118 | #748 |
| 1973 | — | — | 128 | #713 |
| 1972 | — | — | 114 | #744 |
| 1971 | — | — | 119 | #754 |
| 1970 | — | — | 119 | #757 |
| 1969 | — | — | 91 | #811 |
| 1968 | — | — | 55 | #1,005 |
| 1967 | — | — | 32 | #1,361 |
| 1966 | — | — | 30 | #1,426 |
| 1965 | — | — | 24 | #1,621 |
| 1964 | — | — | 27 | #1,541 |
| 1963 | — | — | 27 | #1,545 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,662 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,695 |
| 1960 | — | — | 16 | #2,114 |
| 1959 | — | — | 19 | #1,914 |
| 1958 | — | — | 17 | #2,020 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,958 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,517 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,186 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,794 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,888 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,706 |
| 1950 | — | — | 10 | #2,568 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,992 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,742 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,902 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).