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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : respelling of Torrents, a topographic name for someone living by the course of a torrent, from the plural of Catalan torrent ‘mountain stream’, ‘torrent’ (Latin torrens).
  • Scottish and northern Irish : variant spelling of Torrence.
  • Dutch : patronymic from a reduced pet form of the personal names Victor or Hector (see Hector).

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