Torpe

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/tɔɹpi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Torpe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 24K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 78K
  • SESweden1 in 425K

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)

232 people

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Torpe 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 Torpe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway2321 in 24K232Torpe23
DK Denmark751 in 78K75Torpe40
US United States≈49 est.≈1 in 6.8M—Torpe5
BR Brazil481 in 4.4M48——
SE Sweden241 in 425K24Torpe4
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4——

232 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Torpe is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Germany, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Toerpe, Törpe, Torpè

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, United Kingdom, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Torpé

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Törpe, Torpé

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Torpè, Törpe, Torpé

22 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Torpe is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of torpeō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, sordid (morally degrading)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In hil, slow, dull, or stupid

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, dull, silly, slow

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, clumsy, awkward

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Filipino, stupid; dull

    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)

1920194019601980Ulla Torpe, b. 1925Tjia Torpe, b. 1951Johannes Torpe, b. 1973Are Torpe, b. 1973Christian Torpe, b. 1978

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Torpe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—232#6,773
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—75#7,240
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—48#107,840
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—24#22,377
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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

How do you pronounce Torpe?
A machine transcription gives /tɔɹpi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Torpe have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 232 people named Torpe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled torpe.
Where is Torpe most common?
Torpe is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Torpe?
In Norway, the national register counted 232 people named Torpe, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.

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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, “Torpe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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