Torrance

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
Given to boys 86.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
1973 · 128 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,590
since 1940

Torrance over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201959peak #2,251, 2002peak #710, 1973girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086#5,20818
2024#9,55610#8,3129
2023#11,1698#5,92715
2022#11,2318#4,70121
2021#12,2067#4,78020
2020#12,1427#5,04118
2019#8,59712#4,11425
2018#8,14613#5,32017
2017#9,34111#2,89141
2016#7,98814#2,72644
2015#8,44713#3,98226
2014#8,05314#2,92939
2013#8,58013#4,06424
2012#5,89522#2,81142
2011#7,78315#2,74843
2010#7,21717#3,23934
2009#5,37826#3,27434
2008#8,96513#2,71745
2007#5,09728#2,72144
2006#3,85439#2,83240
2005#3,50942#2,90236
2004#3,39144#3,01433
2003#2,57762#2,10253
2002#2,25173#2,42841
2001#3,36840#2,05051
2000#2,42539
1999#2,16243
1998#1,89951
1997#1,90848
1996#1,84249
1995#1,70652
1994#2,01241
1993#1,46064
1992#1,28977
1991#1,24580
1990#1,29473
1989#1,18481
1988#1,09283
1987#1,14070
1986#1,28657
1985#1,50444
1984#1,25154
1983#1,44843
1982#1,44144
1981#1,15463
1980#97485
1979#1,01676
1978#820108
1977#830105
1976#797109
1975#9,0675#792110
1974#747118
1973#710128
1972#740114
1971#748119
1970#753119
1969#80991
1968#99655
1967#1,34032
1966#1,40130
1965#1,59524
1964#1,51027
1963#1,51327
1962#2,50411
1961#2,53811
1960#2,04216
1959#1,86519
1958#1,95317
1957#3,5526
1956#3,2167
1955#2,9648
1954#3,4526
1953#2,7099
1952#3,3736
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First appearance
1940

The first year at least five boys were named Torrance! It came in at #3,459, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1940–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Torrance
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 3,104 spots since 2024 (#8,312#5,208)
  • 167 spots since 2020 (#5,041#5,208)
  • 1,226 spots since 2015 (#3,982#5,208)
  • Biggest jump: 344 spots in 1968 (#1,340#996)
  • Biggest drop: 196 spots in 1979 (#820#1,016)
Rise & fade · boys
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1940
  • Peaked 1973 at #710 (128 births)
  • Births halved by 1981, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1968–1978
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,176
  • Highest: 1 in 12,176 boys born in 1973 were named Torrance (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 94,893 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1970s
  • 30.8% of all boys named Torrance (1,106) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
  • Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s18#2,788 (1948)#3,195
1950s88#1,865 (1959)#2,836
1960s324#809 (1969)#1,625
1970s1,106#710 (1973)#795
1980s624#974 (1980)#1,247
1990s578#1,245 (1991)#1,682
2000s416#2,050 (2001)#2,647
2010s335#2,726 (2016)#3,482
2020s101#4,701 (2022)#5,662

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Torrance in 1959

boys
#1,865
19 births · 1 in 112,343 boys

Top boys' names in 1959

  1. #1Michael85,294
  2. #2David83,977
  3. #3James78,648
  4. #4John76,446
  5. #5Robert74,542
  6. #6Mark56,945
  7. #7William51,386
  8. #8Richard47,202
  9. #9Thomas40,296
  10. #10Steven33,597
  11. #1,865Torrance19
More about 1959

boys

2,134,518 boys got a published name in 1959; 1 in 112,343 of them was named Torrance, which outranked 59.2% of the 4,572 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Torrance
  1. #1,806Vann20
  2. #1,806Vester20
  3. #1,806Ysidro20
  4. #1,865Torrance19
  5. #1,865Annette19
  6. #1,865Annie19
  7. #1,865Arley19
  8. #1,916Autry18
  9. #1,916Candido18
  10. #1,916Cheyenne18

Tied with 50 names at #1,865; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1958
Risers
  1. 2,208Efrem#3,033#825
  2. 901Darin#1,677#776
  3. 871Yancy#1,557#686
  4. 708Raynard#1,677#969
  5. 644Darrin#1,396#752
Fallers
  1. 307Jace#761#1,068
  2. 241Otha#915#1,156
  3. 234Cheryl#994#1,228
  4. 230Dann#969#1,199
  5. 227Carnell#777#1,004

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1959