Thoralf
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/toʁalf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thoralf is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- NONorway
- CHSwitzerland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Thoralf Gladb. 1878NONorwegian sailor (1878-1969)
- Thoralf Pryserb. 1885NONorwegian newspaper editor
- Thoralf Skolemb. 1887NONorwegian mathematician (1887-1963)
- Thoralf Hagenb. 1887NONorwegian coxswain (1887-1979)
- Thoralf Kloumanb. 1890NONorwegian actor and artist (1890–1940)
- Thoralf Grubbeb. 1891NONorwegian association football player (1891-1951)
- Thoralf Strømstadb. 1897NONordic skier (1897–1984)
- Thoralf Sandakerb. 1923NONorwegian rower (1923-2020)
- Thoralf Knoblochb. 1962DEGerman painter (born 1962)
- Thoralf Petersb. 1968DEGerman rower
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 492 | #2,545 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2014 | 204 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2013 | 204 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 26 | #21,069 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #19,732 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #18,911 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 24 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Thoralf?
- A machine transcription gives /toʁalf/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Thoralf a male or female name?
- Thoralf 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 Thoralf have the most bearers?
- Thoralf is most frequently recorded in Germany.
What do you want to know about Thoralf?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thoralfThe 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, “Thoralf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.