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    The surname Torno

    An Italian occupational surname, carried by 550 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T650

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Torno is more common than 75.4% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    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.

    Torno is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 550 people named Torno in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 561,356 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 465.

    #39,887
    rank among US surnames
    550
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +18.3%
    change since 2000 (was #43,708)

    Who is named Torno

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    66% of people named Torno identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 6.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 25%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.0%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Torno

    Torno has the Soundex code T650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T650.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Torno come from?
    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…
    How common is the surname Torno?
    550 people in the United States had the surname Torno in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 561,356 Americans. It ranked 39,887th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Torno?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Torno identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Torno?
    Torno is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Torno getting more or less common?
    More common. 465 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 550 in 2010, up 18%.