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 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 29,470 of them was named Torrance, which outranked 86.0% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,556Tala63
- #2,556Tanner63
- #2,556Tytiana63
- #2,577Torrance62
- #2,577Addisyn62
- #2,577Adelle62
- #2,577Agnes62
- #2,610Aline61
- #2,610Angely61
- #2,610Armoni61
Tied with 32 names at #2,577; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 37,271 of them was named Torrance, which outranked 83.5% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,077Silvestre54
- #2,077Suraj54
- #2,077Vikram54
- #2,102Torrance53
- #2,102Abdallah53
- #2,102Alphonso53
- #2,102Amon53
- #2,128Ahmir52
- #2,128Boris52
- #2,128Cleveland52
Tied with 25 names at #2,102; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.