Girl · Old Norse
Thyra
Say it: TEE-rah
Meaning
From Old Norse Þyri, of uncertain origin; it may be a contraction of an older Thor-name.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Commemorated on the Jelling stones and revived in Denmark and Sweden in modern times.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1900s
In the United States
- 1,266 babies given this name since 1896
- At its height in 1904, about 1 in 12,500 girls
- 10 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Tyra
| Old Norse | Þyri |
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Famous bearers
- Thyra, queen of Gorm the Old, named on the Jelling stones
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Where this comes from
- Viking Age runestone inscriptions
- Royal and noble genealogies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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