Surname meaning and origin

Torres

Spanish: Towers

Pronounced TOH-rres (Spanish [ˈto.res]; US English TOR-ez)

Where the name comes from

  • Spanish
    Towers
    Plural of torre "tower" < Latin turris
    Toponymic. DAFN: "Galician, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of numerous places called Torres, all named with the plural of torre ‘tower’." DAFN also records an Italian habitational sense (Torres in Belluno, Porto Torres in Sassari).
  • Sephardic Jewish
    Iberian surname kept by converso descendants
    DAFN: "As a Jewish name it was often adopted at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism."

Forms in other languages

Torre, Tórrez, De Torres

Torres in letter-number systems

Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.

544
Hebrew Standard
4
Hebrew Ordinal
95
English Simple
570
English Sumerian
67
English Reverse
775
Greek Isopsephy
5
Chaldean
5
Pythagorean

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