Töre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: custom, law
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/tœˈɾe/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Töre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name.
- NONorway1 in 388(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 750
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Töre itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 388 (inferred from the name graph)
14,077 people, 2025
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Tore in NO Norway, SE Sweden, TM Turkmenistan and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)custom, law
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Töre counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
14,077 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Töre is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Eğitim, görgü, gelenek. 2. Soyluluk, asalet. 3. Eksiksiz, mükemmel. 4. Geline verilen armağan.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In xgn-pro, order, regulation, matrimony, marriage
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Swedish, fatwood, resinous pinewood
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frr, to need to (do something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkmen, official, bureaucrat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Abdülkadir Töreb. 1873TRTurkish composer (1873–1946)
- Zorlu Töreb. 1956TRTurkish Cypriot statesperson (born 1956)
- Umut Töreb. 1977TRTurkish photographer (born 1977)
- Pınar Töreb. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Gökhan Töreb. 1992DETurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Nurten Gizem TöreTRTurkish researcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Töre mean, and where does it come from?
- custom, law Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Töre?
- In Turkish /tœˈɾe/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Töre have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Töre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tore.
- Where is Töre most common?
- Töre is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 388 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Töre?
- In Norway, the national register counted 14,077 people named Töre in 2025, about 1 in 388 residents.
- How common is Töre compared with other names?
- In Norway, Töre is the 25th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Töre?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%B6reThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Töre” — the 25th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.