Tōr

given name · Latin script

Tōr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Þórr. The given name is also a spelling variant of Tord, from Þórðr.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 278(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 1.8K
  • FIFinland1 in 6.1K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Norway (measured from records)

19,643 people, 2025

Sources
86 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 278 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tor in NO Norway, SE Sweden, FI Finland and 1 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)

From Old Norse Þórr. The given name is also a spelling variant of Tord, from Þórðr.

Sources 6

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • A Frequency Dictionary of German
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tōr 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.

Where Tōr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#20819,6431 in 27849KTor86
SE Sweden—5,7101 in 1.8K5.7KTor24
US United States—9871 in 337K935Tor81
FI Finland—9091 in 6.1K2.5KTor7
DK Denmark—4891 in 12K489—1
IS Iceland—31 in 117K3——

19,643 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); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tōr is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tor, Bauernhof, Toer, T-Or, Tör

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tōr under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tōr mean, and where does it come from?
From Old Norse Þórr. The given name is also a spelling variant of Tord, from Þórðr. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and A Frequency Dictionary of German and 4 other sources.
Is Tōr a male or female name?
Tōr is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Tōr have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Tōr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tor.
Where is Tōr most common?
Tōr is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 278 people carrying it.
How common is the name Tōr?
In Norway, the national register counted 19,643 people named Tōr in 2025, about 1 in 278 residents.
How common is Tōr compared with other names?
In Norway, Tōr is the 208th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.

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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, “Tōr” — the 208th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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