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idk i think its Dutch




or Hebrew

This is what www.ancestry.com had to say about the name,
Toren Name Meaning and History
Dutch (Van Toren): habitational or topographic name from Middle Dutch to(o)rn, tor(r)en ‘tower’, which has given rise to many place names (compare Torre).
Swedish: ornamental name from the personal name Tor (see Thor 3) + the common adjectival suffix -en, from Latin -enius ‘descendant of’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from the city of Torun in Poland, called Thorn in German.
hope this helps.

Toren Name Meaning and History
1.DUTCH(Van Toren): habitational or topographic name from Middle Dutch "to(o)rn", "tor(r)en" ‘"tower"’, which has given rise to many place names (compare Torre).
2.SWEDISH: ornamental name from the personal name Tor (see Thor 3) + the common adjectival suffix -en, from Latin -enius ‘descendant of’.
3. JEWISH (Ashkenazic): habitational name from the city of Torun in Poland, called Thorn in German.

www.familysearch.org has listings in:Connecticut; Quebec, Canada; The Netherlands; Wisconsin; Bolivia (S. America);
Denmark; Belgium; Ecuador (S.Amer.); Italy; Alabama; Georgia; Holland; Illinois; Indiana; Devon, England; Denmark;
Cambridge, England; Middlesex, England; Bedford, England;
Nottingham, England; Scotland; Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean; Finland; Germany; Mexico; Missouri; Norway;
and other South American countries of Uruguay; Chile; Peru, & Argentina; and Spain.
Variations in spelling include: TARRING ; TYRON; TYRONE;
TARIN; TERRIEN ; VAN TOREN; THIRON; TIRON; TERAN;
TURIN; TORHAN ; TORAN; TORINE ; TORVING ;TORRING ;
TORRINGE ;TORON ; TORRYN; TORRIN ;VAN DEN TOORN ;TORENIUS ; THOREEN ; VAN DEN TOORN; TOURON; THORN; TOURAINE ; TOUREENE ;TORENSEN (males in Denmark); TORENSDATTER (females in Denmark); and TORENSDR (females in Norway).

it is the nationality of your mom