The torres Surname
torres Name Meaning and History
- Galician, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of the numerous places named Torres, all named with the plural of torre ‘tower’ (see Torre).
- Italian: habitational name from Torres in Belluno or Porto Torres in Sassari. In southern Italy the surname is sometimes a borrowing from Spanish (see 1).
- Dutch: from a short form of Victoris, from the Latin personal name Victorius.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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