Tore
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Norwegian: alternative form of tora (“to dare”)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/²tuːrə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tore is a given name 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 388 (inferred from the name graph)
14,077 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
alternative form of tora (“to dare”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tore is read(measured from records)
Tore is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Norwegian45%
alternative form of tora (“to dare”)
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
to dare
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Bokmålkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tore in English.
- Swedish5.4%
Tore är ett nordiskt namn, som kommer av ett *Þórvér, antingen sammansatt av → Tor- och urnordiskt *wīhar ’kämpe’ eller ett sammansatt ord med den totala betydelsen ’Torspräst’ eller ’åskpräst’ (jfr → Sölve). Tore kan också ursprungligen vara en avledning till gudanamnet → Tor. I den rikssvenska almanackan 19 oktober och i den finlandssvenska 8 juli.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tore 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); the il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 register. 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)
Tore is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Salvatore
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Akan, 4. t. ase, to cut off, extirpate. I Ki.it, 16. - 5. to sink, sub- side, decrease in volume, as liquids by coagulation; niio no ada nti, atore; cf. anitore
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
Scandinavian: from the Old Norse personal name órir , apparently originally composed of the name of the god Thor ( órr ) + Old Norse verr man. It has also been interpreted as a derivative form from órr . As early as the Viking period, however, the form óri was being used as a short form of all the compound names with the first element órr . Variant: Ture .
as a word
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)
- Tore Holmb. 1896SESwedish yacht designer, boatbuilder, and sailor (1896–1977)
- Tor Johnsonb. 1903SEnot in their usual nameSwedish professional wrestler and actor (1902-1971)
- Tore Kellerb. 1905SESwedish association football player (1905-1988)
- Tore Lokolokob. 1930PGPapua New Guinea politician (1930–2013)
- Jacques Werupb. 1945SEnot in their usual nameSwedish writer, poet, screenwriter, musician (1945-2016)
- Tore Johanssonb. 1959SESwedish musician
- Tore Pedersenb. 1969NONorwegian association football player
- Tore Renbergb. 1972NONorwegian novelist and musician
- Tore Sagenb. 1980NONorwegian actor and comedian
- Tore Reginiussenb. 1986NONorwegian association football player
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)
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)
Attested in 47 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Tore mean, and where does it come from?
- alternative form of tora (“to dare”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tore?
- A machine transcription gives /²tuːrə/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Tore a male or female name?
- Tore 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 Tore have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Tore, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tore.
- Where is Tore most common?
- Tore is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 388 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tore?
- In Norway, the national register counted 14,077 people named Tore in 2025, about 1 in 388 residents.
- How common is Tore compared with other names?
- In Norway, Tore is the 25th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tore?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toreThe 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, “Tore” — the 25th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.