Torner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature; bearer count 162
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/toɾneɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Torner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 39K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 17K
- FIFinland1 in 174K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
1,277 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Toponymic surname from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature; bearer count 162.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Torner counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,277 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the dfa-band-4 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Torner is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymischer Wohnstätten-/Herkunftsname zu mhd., mnd. dorn 'Dorn' bzw. entsprechenden Toponymen; Bearer count 162.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In Latin, first-person singular present passive subjunctive of tornō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of torn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, to turn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Albert Juan i Tornerb. 1872ESSpanish architect
- Magí Murià i Tornerb. 1881ESCatalan journalist and movie director (1881-1958)
- Eduardo Martínez Tornerb. 1888ESSpanish composer and scientist (1888-1955)
- Gustavo Tornerb. 1925ESSpanish painter and sculptor (1925–2025)
- Gloria Tornerb. 1934ESSpanish painter
- Carles Tornerb. 1963ESSpanish professor
- Dmitri Tornerb. 1980MDMoldovan sport executive
- Evan TornerUSGerman scholar
- Martín TornerESSpanish painter
- Pedro TornerSpanish painter, active 1633
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #3,581 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #3,579 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 371 | #58,949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 270 | #68,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 176 | #102,197 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 10 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Torner mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature; bearer count 162. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Torner?
- A machine transcription gives /toɾneɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Torner have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Torner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled torner.
- Where is Torner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Torner is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Torner?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,277 people named Torner, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tornerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Torner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.