# Torrens (surname)

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

A surname from Catalan.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Catalan |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,125 |
| US rank (2010) | 22,770 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 274,440 people |
| Change since 2000 | +17% (965 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan Torrens. It is also a variant of the surname Torrence.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Torrens 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) | 52% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 45% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 0.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Torrens in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Torrens

- Robert Torrens, Anglo-Irish Royal Marine, economist, and chair of South Australian Colonisation Commission
- Robert Torrens, 19th-century South Australian politician responsible for the introduction of Torrens title

## Similar surnames

Torrence, Terrones, Torrance, Tornquist, Truong, Turnage, Tarango, Troncoso, Trang, Trinkle, Thornsberry, Turnquist.

## 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.