Subscribe >
Help
Member Login
Username Password (Forgot?)
Family Tree
Look up another surname
The torres Surname

torres Name Meaning and History

  1. Galician, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of the numerous places named Torres, all named with the plural of torre ‘tower’ (see Torre).
  2. Italian: habitational name from Torres in Belluno or Porto Torres in Sassari. In southern Italy the surname is sometimes a borrowing from Spanish (see 1).
  3. Dutch: from a short form of Victoris, from the Latin personal name Victorius.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Learn the meaning and history of your first name
Share this page with friends and family

14–Day Free Trial

Download the Getting Started guide
It's FREE with registration!

torres Family Facts

Distribution of torres Families in the US in 1920
Number of torres families
 929-1855
 310-928		 1-309
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

Click on a state to view torres census records

Year

How is this helpful?

  • You can decide where (in which states) to start searching for torres records.
  • You can see how torres families moved over time by selecting different Census years.

What do I do next?

The information for this map came from Ancestry.com.au’s US Federal Census Collection.
  • Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, residence and occupation.
  • Click here to search torres census records.

Search for torres records

Hide AdvancedShow AdvancedClear Form

Search

Name

Birth

e.g. 16 Jan 1923
+/-
e.g. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Death

e.g. 16 Jan 1923
+/-
e.g. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Give priority to    

Only records from Australia and the UK

More resources for your torres family history

Start your FREE family tree. Who will you discover?

A family tree is the easiest way to start discovering your family history. To begin, just enter whatever you know and we'll use that to try and find more information for you.

Begin your family tree with your name:

Learn more about family trees.

Member Connections

More Tools and Resources