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 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#334 · 1 in 2,637
- Alabama#416 · 1 in 4,300
- Georgia#437 · 1 in 4,196
- Florida#438 · 1 in 4,251
- North Carolina#489 · 1 in 6,195
Best ever in a state: #266 in Georgia, 1973.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #334 | 7 | 1 in 2,637 |
| Alabama | #416 | 6 | 1 in 4,300 |
| Georgia | #437 | 9 | 1 in 4,196 |
| Florida | #438 | 12 | 1 in 4,251 |
| North Carolina | #489 | 6 | 1 in 6,195 |
| Illinois | #536 | 11 | 1 in 7,217 |
| Louisiana | #552 | 6 | 1 in 5,508 |
| Ohio | #615 | 6 | 1 in 12,845 |
| Texas | #1,003 | 6 | 1 in 19,186 |
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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 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 15,202 of them was named Torrance, which outranked 87.9% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #816Dejuan109
- #816Irvin109
- #816Parker109
- #820Torrance108
- #820Braden108
- #820Federico108
- #820Jacques108
- #826Aldo107
- #826Demario107
- #826Denis107
Tied with 5 names at #820; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.