Thörnqvist
surname · Latin script
Thörnqvist is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From torn (“thorn”) + kvist (“twig”).
- SESweden1 in 165K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 489K
- USUnited States≈1 in 33Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 165K (inferred from the name graph)
62 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Thornqvist in US United States, DK Denmark.
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 torn (“thorn”) + kvist (“twig”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Thörnqvist 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 62 | 1 in 165K | 62 | Thörnqvist | 33 |
| DK Denmark | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | Thornqvist | 9 |
| US United States | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 33M | listed | Thornqvist | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Thörnqvist | 3 |
62 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling thornqvist. 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: 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Clara Eleonora Thörnqvistb. 1896SESwedish linguist, librarian
- Owe Thörnqvistb. 1929SESwedish singer
- Jan Thörnqvistb. 1959SESwedish vice admiral and commander of the navy
- Mikael Thörnqvistb. 1962SESwedish association football manager
- Roland Thornqvistb. 1970SESwedish-American college tennis player, college tennis coach
- Christina Thomsen Thörnqvistb. 1972SESwedish latinist (1972-)
- Anna Thörnqvistb. 1995SEassociation football player
- Agneta ThörnqvistSESwedish local politician
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Thörnqvist mean, and where does it come from?
- From torn (“thorn”) + kvist (“twig”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Thörnqvist have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 62 people named Thörnqvist, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thörnqvist.
- Where is Thörnqvist most common?
- Thörnqvist is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 165 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Thörnqvist?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 62 people named Thörnqvist, about 1 in 165 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/th%C3%B6rnqvistThe 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, “Thörnqvist”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.