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
- Peak · boys
- 1973 · 128 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,590since 1940
Torrance over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #4,780 | 20 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #5,041 | 18 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #4,114 | 25 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #2,891 | 41 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #2,929 | 39 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | #4,064 | 24 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #2,748 | 43 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #3,239 | 34 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 | #2,717 | 45 |
| 2007 | #5,097 | 28 | #2,721 | 44 |
| 2006 | #3,854 | 39 | #2,832 | 40 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 | #2,902 | 36 |
| 2004 | #3,391 | 44 | #3,014 | 33 |
| 2003 | #2,577 | 62 | #2,102 | 53 |
| 2002 | #2,251 | 73 | #2,428 | 41 |
| 2001 | #3,368 | 40 | #2,050 | 51 |
| 2000 | — | #2,425 | 39 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,162 | 43 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,899 | 51 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,908 | 48 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,842 | 49 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,706 | 52 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,012 | 41 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,460 | 64 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,289 | 77 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,245 | 80 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,294 | 73 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,184 | 81 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,092 | 83 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,140 | 70 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,286 | 57 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,504 | 44 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,251 | 54 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,448 | 43 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,441 | 44 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,154 | 63 | |
| 1980 | — | #974 | 85 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,016 | 76 | |
| 1978 | — | #820 | 108 | |
| 1977 | — | #830 | 105 | |
| 1976 | — | #797 | 109 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #792 | 110 |
| 1974 | — | #747 | 118 | |
| 1973 | — | #710 | 128 | |
| 1972 | — | #740 | 114 | |
| 1971 | — | #748 | 119 | |
| 1970 | — | #753 | 119 | |
| 1969 | — | #809 | 91 | |
| 1968 | — | #996 | 55 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,340 | 32 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,401 | 30 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,595 | 24 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,510 | 27 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,513 | 27 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,504 | 11 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,538 | 11 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,042 | 16 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,865 | 19 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,953 | 17 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,216 | 7 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,709 | 9 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
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| 1950 | — | #2,438 | 10 | |
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| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
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| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
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| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 1973 at #710 (128 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1968–1978
- 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%)
- 30.8% of all boys named Torrance (1,106) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 18 | #2,788 (1948) | #3,195 |
| 1950s | 88 | #1,865 (1959) | #2,836 |
| 1960s | 324 | #809 (1969) | #1,625 |
| 1970s | 1,106 | #710 (1973) | #795 |
| 1980s | 624 | #974 (1980) | #1,247 |
| 1990s | 578 | #1,245 (1991) | #1,682 |
| 2000s | 416 | #2,050 (2001) | #2,647 |
| 2010s | 335 | #2,726 (2016) | #3,482 |
| 2020s | 101 | #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 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 24,615 of them was named Torrance, which outranked 87.6% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,228Selma74
- #2,228Skyy74
- #2,228Zaida74
- #2,251Torrance73
- #2,251Aline73
- #2,251Avianna73
- #2,251Dinah73
- #2,263Alexie72
- #2,263Alexzandria72
- #2,263Allissa72
Tied with 11 names at #2,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 47,354 of them was named Torrance, which outranked 80.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,403Trinton42
- #2,403Tymir42
- #2,403Tyshon42
- #2,428Torrance41
- #2,428Akil41
- #2,428Amiri41
- #2,428Arlo41
- #2,470Adham40
- #2,470Adil40
- #2,470Aleksandar40
Tied with 41 names at #2,428; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.