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

Torralba, 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 Torralba surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Torralba in America

Torralba is the 20065th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Torralba surname appeared 1,332 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 Torralba.

We can also compare 2010 data for Torralba 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 Torralba

The surname Torralba is of Spanish origin, derived from the words "torre" meaning tower and "alba" meaning dawn or white. It likely originated in the late medieval period, around the 13th or 14th century, in the regions of Andalusia, Castile, and Aragon in Spain.

One of the earliest known records of the surname Torralba can be found in the Repartimiento de Sevilla, a document from the 13th century recording the distribution of land and properties in Seville after the Christian conquest of the city in 1248. Several individuals with the surname Torralba are listed as recipients of properties in this document.

The Torralba surname may also have been derived from various place names in Spain, such as Torralba de Calatrava in Ciudad Real, Torralba de los Frailes in Zaragoza, or Torralba de los Sisones in Teruel. These place names likely predate the use of the surname and may have influenced its adoption.

In the 15th century, a notable figure with the surname Torralba was Fray Juan de Torralba, a Franciscan friar and theologian who served as a confessor to King Henry IV of Castile. He lived from around 1420 to 1490.

Another prominent individual with this surname was Diego de Torralba, a Spanish painter active in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. He worked primarily in Seville and is known for his religious paintings and altarpieces.

In the 16th century, Pedro de Torralba was a Spanish soldier and explorer who participated in the conquest of Mexico alongside Hernán Cortés. He was born around 1490 and played a role in the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521.

During the 17th century, Fray Jerónimo de Torralba was a Spanish Franciscan missionary who traveled to the Americas and worked among the indigenous populations in what is now New Mexico and Texas. He lived from around 1590 to 1660.

In the 18th century, José de Torralba was a Spanish military engineer and architect who served in the Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers. He was involved in the construction and fortification of several important Spanish cities and settlements in the Americas, such as Havana and Cartagena de Indias.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Torralba

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Torralba.

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 Torralba 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 Torralba 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 Torralba was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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