# Torno (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/torno/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Italian |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 550 |
| US rank (2010) | 39,887 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 561,356 people |
| Change since 2000 | +18% (465 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * Borrowed from Italian Torno, a metonymic occupational surname for a turner, from torno, older form of tornio (“lathe”). * Borrowed from Spanish Torno, a habitational surname from the village of El Torno, in Extremadura. * Altered spelling of a German or Polish habitational surname from the city of Tarnów, in Poland.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Torno in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 66% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 6.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 25% |
| Two or more races | 2.4% |

## Similar surnames

Troiano, Turano, Torain, Tierno, Thorne, Thorn, Tran, Trinh, Trahan, Tierney, Teran, Turney.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.