Find out how popular the last name Rodríguez-Torre is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Rodríguez-Torre.

Rodríguez-Torre, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Rodríguez-Torre surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Rodríguez-Torre in America

Rodríguez-Torre is the 54418th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Rodríguez-Torre surname appeared 379 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Rodríguez-Torre.

We can also compare 2010 data for Rodríguez-Torre to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Rodríguez-Torre

The surname RODRIGUEZTORRE is a compound Spanish surname that combines the patronymic "Rodriguez" and the locational "Torre". It is believed to have originated in Spain during the medieval period.

The first part of the name, Rodriguez, is derived from the given name "Rodrigo", which itself comes from the Germanic name "Roderic". This was a popular name among the Visigoths who ruled parts of the Iberian Peninsula during the 5th to 8th centuries.

The second part, Torre, refers to a tower or a fortified structure. This was likely added to the name to indicate that the family originated from or lived near a prominent tower or castle. Many Spanish surnames incorporated locational elements to distinguish different branches of families.

One of the earliest recorded instances of a version of this surname dates back to 1121 in the Liber Feudorum Maior, which was a record of feudal landholdings in Catalonia. Here, a knight named Bernardo Rodric de la Torre is mentioned.

In the 13th century, a nobleman named Pedro Rodriguez de la Torre served as a trusted advisor to King Alfonso X of Castile and León, known as "El Sabio" (the Wise). Pedro was also a renowned poet and troubadour at the king's court.

During the Reconquista, the period when Christian kingdoms gradually retook control of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors, a military commander named Gonzalo Rodríguez de la Torre fought alongside King Ferdinand III of Castile in the conquest of Córdoba in 1236.

In the 15th century, a Spanish explorer named Diego Rodríguez de la Torre accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the Americas in 1493. He later became one of the first European settlers in the Caribbean.

Lastly, in the 17th century, a notable figure was Juan Rodríguez de la Torre y Arellano (1630-1694), a Spanish jurist and author who served as a judge in the royal court of New Spain (present-day Mexico).

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Rodríguez-Torre

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Rodríguez-Torre.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Rodríguez-Torre was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Rodríguez-Torre has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Rodríguez-Torre was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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