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torre Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian: topographic name for someone who lived near a tower, usually a defensive fortification or watchtower (from Latin turris), or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, as for example Torre Annunziata or Torre del Greco in Naples province, Torre de’ Passeri (Pescara, Abruzzo), or Torre di Ruggiero (Catanzaro, Calabria).
  2. Galician, Catalan, Aragonese, Spanish, and Portuguese: habitational name from any of the numerous places so named in Galicia (often in the form De la Torre), in Catalonia and Aragon (as for example La Torre de Fontalbella, La Torre del Compte, La Torre de Fluvià), or from any of the many places in Spain and Portugal named Torre or La Torre, from torre ‘(watch) tower’ (of the same etymology as 1).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of torre Families in the US in 1920
Number of torre families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
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Threads: 22 - Messages: 78
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ottavio torre don torre 0
Searching for a Torre related to Ottavio Torre rachelle162 4
Looking For Torre and a history Onerosus 0
Laura Louise Tori/Torre JUDYWAISNER47 0
de la Torre - Havana, Cuba jfrazie1_1 0
Mary (Torre) Sevarino Enflield, Ct spra1000761 0
Hello?? JTorre6186 38
TORRES of NEW JERSEY 1900s GWal398146 0
La Torre - 1900 or earlier Puerto Rico Yadira DeLaTorre 1
Obit. Magdalena Mader-De La Torre KAYROM 0
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