Thorvald
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Du vieux norrois Þórvaldr, « pouvoir de Thor » ou « gouverné par Thor »
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈθɔɹˈvɑɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thorvald is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. In Greenland it is the 17th most common given name.
- NONorway1 in 12K(measured from records)
- GLGreenland≈1 in 13K
- DKDenmark1 in 22K
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)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
455 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Du vieux norrois Þórvaldr, « pouvoir de Thor » ou « gouverné par Thor ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thorvald 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.
455 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). 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)
Thorvald is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine scandinave, « puissance du dieu Thor ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Thorvald Eirikssonb. 972ISIcelandic explorer
- Thorvald Nicolai Thieleb. 1838DKDanish astronomer (1838–1910)
- Thorvald Bindesbøllb. 1846DKDanish architect (1846-1908)
- Thorvald Madsenb. 1870DKDanish physician (1870–1957)
- Thorvald Stauningb. 1873DKPrime Minister of Denmark (1873–1942)
- Thorvald Ellegaardb. 1877DKDanish cyclist (1877–1954)
- Thorvald Aagaardb. 1877DKDanish composer, organist and college teacher (1877–1937)
- Thorvald Nilsenb. 1881NONorwegian explorer (1881–1940)
- Thorvald Aadahlb. 1882NOnewspaper editor
- Thorvald Stoltenbergb. 1931NONorwegian politician (1931–2018)
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
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 Thorvald?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈθɔɹˈvɑɫd/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Thorvald mean?
- Recorded meaning: Du vieux norrois Þórvaldr, « pouvoir de Thor » ou « gouverné par Thor ».
- Is Thorvald a male or female name?
- Thorvald 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.
- What are other forms of the name Thorvald?
- In the etymology graph, Thor and Torvald are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Thorvald have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 455 people named Thorvald, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thorvald.
- Where is Thorvald most common?
- Thorvald is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Thorvald?
- In Norway, the national register counted 455 people named Thorvald in 2025, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Thorvald compared with other names?
- In Greenland, Thorvald is the 17th most common given name of 67 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thorvaldThe 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, “Thorvald” — the 17th most common given name in Greenland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.