Surname meaning and origin
Torres
Spanish: Towers
Pronounced TOH-rres (Spanish [ˈto.res]; US English TOR-ez)
Where the name comes from
- SpanishTowersPlural of torre "tower" < Latin turrisToponymic. 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 JewishIberian surname kept by converso descendantsDAFN: "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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