The Toro surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 10,650 people carried this name — #3,358 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 27,700 people counted. That is up 24% from 8,576 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 8,402 people named Toro live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
229 people named Toro live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 125 people named Toro.
Most of them — 68 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 21 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
301 people named Toro are counted in Finland and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Toro,
with a public archive behind them.
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Fermín Toro 1806–1865 · writer -
Bernardo de Toro y Moya 1819–1883 · teacher -
Mario Antonio Toro Labarca d. 1975 · merchant
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Luis Esteban Toro Veloso d. 1973 · merchant
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Luis Alberto Toro Castillo d. 1974 · welder
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Jorge Manuel Toro Toro d. 1973 · newspaper hawker
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Toro.
- Torino 540 · U.S. census
- Toris 139 · U.S. census
- Tormos 120 · U.S. census
- Tornatore 663 · U.S. census
- Torner 176 · U.S. census
- Tornero 458 · U.S. census
- Torossian 463 · U.S. census
- Torra 214 · U.S. census
- Torralba 1,332 · U.S. census
- Torras 151 · U.S. census
- Torre 4,527 · U.S. census
- Torrecillas 411 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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