Torhild
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʊrhɪld/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Torhild is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Þórhildr (“Thor" + "battle”).
- NONorway1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 107K
- FIFinland1 in 223K
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
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,381 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Old Norse Þórhildr (“Thor" + "battle”).
Sources 2
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Torhild 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.
2,381 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); 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Torhild Lindalb. 1931NONorwegian actress and singer (1931–1980)
- Torhild Johnsenb. 1934NONorwegian politician (1934–2022)
- Torhild Staahlenb. 1947NOsinger (1947–2021)
- Torhild Nigarb. 1950NONorwegian singer
- Torhild Bransdalb. 1956NONorwegian politician
- Torhild Helling Bergaplassb. 1957NONorwegian politician
- Torhild Sivertsenb. 1963NONorwegian singer
- Torhild M. Hansenb. 1968NONorwegian writer
- Torhild Ostadb. 1969NONorwegian singer
- Torhild O. Aarbergsbottenb. 1969NONorwegian politician and veterinarian
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 12 sources across 6 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 Torhild mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Þórhildr (“Thor" + "battle”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Torhild?
- A machine transcription gives /tʊrhɪld/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Torhild a male or female name?
- Torhild is a female 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 Torhild?
- In the etymology graph, Torill, Toril and Torild are forms of the same name in other languages; Thora and Tora are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Torhild have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Torhild, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled torhild.
- Where is Torhild most common?
- Torhild is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Torhild?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,381 people named Torhild in 2025, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Torhild compared with other names?
- In Norway, Torhild is the 615th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Torhild?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/torhildThe 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, “Torhild” — the 615th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.