girls:
186 births since 2001
#5530 (3rd percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1912
#2217 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1912
#4713 (39th percentile)
The name Torrence is the #4,713 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,365 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 39.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,217 (51.6% percentile) for all time with 3,179 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,530 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 186 births since 2001.
Torrence first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 2001 for girls). Birth data for Torrence is available in 98 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (98 years for boys and 16 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Torrence has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Torrence reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 11.8% percentile (ranked #568) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 50 births per million (ranked 11.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Torrence ranks #894 for boys (1.9% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 23.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Torrence reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #889) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Torrence".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Torrence is pronounced as TAW-ruhns, which has 2 syllables.
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