The Del Toro Family Name

The spelling Del Toro grew out of Toro, a Spanish surname with a long paper trail. Its meaning, shared with Toro, is “Bull / from Toro”. Del Toro simply joins the particle Del to Toro, a pattern common in Spanish naming. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

The 2010 US Census counted 7,251 people named Del Toro, ranking it number 4,862 among American surnames. Of these, 93% identified as Hispanic or Latino. In Spain, the INE population register lists 330 people with Del Toro as their first surname and 277 as their second.

Arms linked to Toro and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Del Toro family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.