Last Name TORRANCE

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Meaning Not available
Origin English, Irish

Rank 12,405 (2000 US census) 13,391 (1990 US census)
Count 2,295 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 77.12%, or 1770 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 19.39%, or 445 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.87%, or 43 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.13%, or 26 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


English surnames

 English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest baby names

 We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...

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