Tord
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Swedish: a male given name of Old Norse origin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tord is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 3.3K
- FIFinland1 in 143K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
8,527 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name of Old Norse origin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tord is read(measured from records)
Tord 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.
- Swedish39%
a male given name of Old Norse origin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Tord är ett nordiskt namn, fornsvenskt Thord, motsvarande fornvästnordiskt Þorrøðr, sammansatt av → Tor- och -fred (→ -frid). I den rikssvenska almanackan 10 september och i den finlandssvenska 8 juli.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Norwegian24%
a male given name from Old Norse
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tord in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Tord 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.
8,527 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
Tord 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.
Scandinavian: contracted form of the Old Norse personal name Porfriðr , composed of the name of the god Thor ( órr ) + Old Norse friðr peace.
as a word
In French, third-person singular present indicative of tordre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, Feces or fecal matter; a turd.
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)
- Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorellb. 1830SESwedish arachnologist (1830-1901)
- Tord Palanderb. 1902SESwedish economist (1902–1972)
- Tord Gripb. 1938SESwedish football player and manager
- Tord Magnusonb. 1941SESwedish businessman; husband of Princess Christina of Sweden
- Tord Lundströmb. 1945SESwedish ice hockey player
- Lars Ångströmb. 1955SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Tord Gustavsenb. 1970NONorwegian musician
- Tord Wikstenb. 1971SESwedish biathlete
- Tord Lienb. 1975NONorwegian politician
- Tord Danielssonb. 1980SESwedish filmmaker
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Tord mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name of Old Norse origin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tord have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 8.5 thousand people named Tord, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tord.
- Where is Tord most common?
- Tord is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Tord a male or female name?
- Tord 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 Tord?
- In the etymology graph, Tor is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Tord?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 8,527 people named Tord, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tord?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tordThe 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, “Tord”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.