Thore
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Scandinavian; Thor the Thunderer (Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Thore is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 88K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 186K
- DKDenmark≈1 in 190K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈780 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Scandinavian; Thor the Thunderer
Cited for this meaning 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Thore is found
(measured from records)Thore 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 106 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 243 | 1 in 1.4M | 296 | Thore | 127 |
| SE Sweden | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 2.3K | Thore | 18 |
| CA Canada | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 834K | — | Thore | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Thore | 5 |
| DK Denmark | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 194K | 191 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 90 | Thore | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Thore 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 Norwegian, a male given name, a less common spelling of Tore
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Thor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative singular of Thōrus
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)- Alexander Thoreb. 1866SEpolitician and Member of the parliament of Sweden
- Susanne Munch Thoreb. 1960NONorwegian lawyer and business executive
- Maria Nilsson Thoreb. 1975SESwedish illustrator
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)Evidence
(measured from records)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Thore mean, and where does it come from?
- Scandinavian; Thor the Thunderer Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Thore?
- In the etymology graph, Ture is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Thore?
- Mondonomo estimates about 782 people named Thore in France, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Sweden, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Thore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 243 people named Thore in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Thore?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thoreThe 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, “Thore”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.