Torrance
Torrance is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 713th, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1973128 births
- Best rank
- #713in 1973
- Since 1940
- 4,128people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,572 boys have been named Torrance in the United States since 1940, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1973, with 128 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1970s alone account for 31%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 556 girls have also been given it, 13% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1973, its biggest year
Torrance was the 713th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1973 were Michael, Christopher, Jason, James and David. See all of 1973.
Names that rose and fell with Torrance
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Errickpeak 1972
- Trevispeak 1979
- Shanepeak 1973
- Chepeak 1974
- Jobypeak 1977
- Heathpeak 1974
- Shawnpeak 1971
- Damonepeak 1974
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.