Where Does the Tortorici Surname Come From?

Tortorici is best understood alongside Tortora: both are Italian spellings of a single family name. The name is generally explained as “Turtle dove”.

• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Tortorici with 934 bearers, at rank 26,189. From 1891 to 2000, 310 births in France were registered under Tortorici.
• The same family of names includes Tortorella.
• Tortorici adds -ici to the root of Tortora, a familiar way of forming related surnames.

Heraldry and the Tortorici name

Arms linked to Tortora and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Tortorici surname pack.