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Þóra

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Girl · Old Norse

Þóra

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Meaning

A feminine name from the god-name Þórr (Thor, 'thunder').

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

A common saga-age name, still in use across the Nordic countries.

Its wave through time

Fading since the 1890s

In the United States

05101518801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1894per 100,000 babies of that sex
  • 2,254 babies given this name since 1883
  • At its height in 1894, about 1 in 9,700 girls
  • 45 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
  2. The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
  3. Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
  4. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

IcelandicOld NorseNorwegianDanish

The family of the name

Other spellings: Thora

NorwegianTora
DanishThora

Famous bearers

  • Þóra Borgarhjörtr, wife of Ragnar Loðbrók in legend

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Where this comes from

  • The Icelandic sagas and other Old Norse literature
  • National birth statistics of European countries source
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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