Torres: A Surname History (Paperback)

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Torres: A Surname History — Volume 41 of The Surname Histories Series. The tower name — from the Spanish plural of torre, “tower”: a habitational name for the family that lived by the tower, and a classic piece of canting heraldry, towers punning on Torres itself. TORRES stands No. 37 in the 2010 U.S. Census with 437,813 bearers — 92.16% Hispanic — up from No. 50 in 2000, sitting directly behind Scott at #36 and completing the series’ seventeen-book running echo (Lee #21 → Pérez #22 → Thompson #23 → White #24 → Harris #25 → Sánchez #26 → Clark #27 → Ramírez #28 → Lewis #29 → Robinson #30 → Walker #31 → Young #32 → Allen #33 → King #34 → Wright #35 → Scott #36 → Torres #37), seventeen consecutive volumes at seventeen consecutive ranks. The signature story is Juan José Torres (1920–1976), the Bolivian president — told in full. The heraldry is framed honestly: with no single universal Torres arms, the book shows what the record actually holds — the documented canting towers arms of the Torres lineages, five gold towers in saltire, five silver towers in saltire, three silver towers, and the rest, each traced to its lineage rather than to every Torres — and a gazetteer of Torres places rounds out the volume.