Tor-Leif
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/torleif/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Tor-Leif is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Old Norse Þorleifr (“Thor" + "heir”).
- NONorway1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 24K
- FIFinland1 in 180K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
965 people, 2025
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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Torleif in NO Norway, SE Sweden, US United States 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)Old Norse Þorleifr (“Thor" + "heir”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tor-Leif 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #719 | 965 | 1 in 5.7K | 3.4K | Torleif | 52 |
| SE Sweden | — | 429 | 1 in 24K | 429 | Torleif | 23 |
| US United States | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Torleif | 39 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Torleif | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 31 | 1 in 180K | 86 | Tor-Leif | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 25 | 1 in 235K | 25 | Torleif | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 732K | — | Torleif | 3 |
965 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); 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 58 | #4,738 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 49 | #13,896 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 36 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #10,659 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Tor-Leif mean, and where does it come from?
- Old Norse Þorleifr (“Thor" + "heir”). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Tor-Leif?
- In Swedish /torleif/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Tor-Leif a male or female name?
- Tor-Leif 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 Tor-Leif have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 965 people named Tor-Leif, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled torleif.
- Where is Tor-Leif most common?
- Tor-Leif is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tor-Leif?
- In Norway, the national register counted 965 people named Tor-Leif in 2025, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Tor-Leif compared with other names?
- In Norway, Tor-Leif is the 719th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tor-Leif?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tor-leifThe 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, “Tor-Leif” — the 719th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.