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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Torrance is popular in 1975
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alabama#312 · 1 in 2,548
- Mississippi#332 · 1 in 2,609
- Georgia#371 · 1 in 3,311
- Florida#405 · 1 in 3,689
- Virginia#416 · 1 in 5,140
Best ever in a state: #266 in Georgia, 1973.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #312 | 10 | 1 in 2,548 |
| Mississippi | #332 | 7 | 1 in 2,609 |
| Georgia | #371 | 11 | 1 in 3,311 |
| Florida | #405 | 13 | 1 in 3,689 |
| Virginia | #416 | 6 | 1 in 5,140 |
| Tennessee | #456 | 5 | 1 in 6,020 |
| Illinois | #760 | 6 | 1 in 13,042 |
| Texas | #900 | 7 | 1 in 15,296 |
| California | #961 | 8 | 1 in 19,010 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
Top boys' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 291,572 of them was named Torrance, which outranked 14.6% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,551 names at #9,067; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 14,194 of them was named Torrance, which outranked 87.5% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).