Boy name origins & meanings
- Irish : From the low hills
Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name for someone who lived by a tor or rocky hilltop (Old English torr, of Celtic origin), or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, for example Torre or Torr in Devon, where the surname is frequent.
- English : nickname for someone thought to resemble a bull, Anglo-Norman French tor (Latin taurus).
- English : perhaps a habitational name from a minor place in Fife.