Tor
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Norwegian: Thor, a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 11Kas Toor(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 26Kas Toor
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 94Kas Toor
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tor itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 named Toor, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Toor in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Low German to der ‘to the, at the’ in place-derived surnames
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tor is read(measured from records)
Tor is one spelling over 2 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.
- English43%
from Old Norse Þórr, 'thunder'
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- Norwegian26%
Thor, a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Tor 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #639 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | Toor | 63 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Tor | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1 | Toor | 122 |
| US United States | — | 1,393as Toor | 1 in 239K | 1.8K | Toor | 240 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 94K | 970 | Toor | 108 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Tor | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 465 | 1 in 108K | 465 | Tor | 73 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 339 | 1 in 10K | 339 | — | 18 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Tor is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nds, Low German to der ‘to the, at the’ in place-derived surnames
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Scandinavian: originally the name of the god of thunder in Norse mythology, Thor (Old Norse Pórr ). This was not used as a personal name during the Middle Ages. The modern name is either a late 18th-century revival of the divine name or else a vernacular development of TORD . Variant: Thor (chiefly Danish) .
as a word
In trk-pro, net for catching birds or fish
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In ko-pro, wicked, base, wild
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Tor Aulinb. 1866SESwedish violinist, conductor and composer (1866–1914)
- Tor Bergeronb. 1891SESwedish meteorologist (1891-1977)
- Thor Heyerdahlb. 1914NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002)
- Tor Isedalb. 1924SESwedish actor (1924-1990)
- Gunnar Möllerb. 1928DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor (1928-2017)
- Thor Bishopricb. 1963CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actor
- Jonas Sjöstedtb. 1964SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Thor Freudenthalb. 1972DEnot in their usual nameFilm director, screenwriter
- Thor Hushovdb. 1978NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian cyclist
- Thor Kristjanssonb. 1983ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic actor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 465 | #8,508 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 465 | #8,493 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 447 | #50,535 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 376 | #54,752 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 339 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 274 | #67,317 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 are other forms of the name Tor?
- In the etymology graph, Thor, Torbjörn and Tord are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Tor?
- A machine transcription gives /tɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- Where does the name Tor come from?
- Low German to der ‘to the, at the’ in place-derived surnames Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Tor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Toor in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tor is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 10.0 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Tor mean?
- In Norwegian, Thor, a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.
- Is Tor a male or female name?
- Tor 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.
- How common is the name Tor?
- In Spain, the national register counted 465 people named Tor, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.
- How common is Tor compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Tor is the 639th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/torThe 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, “Tor” — the 639th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.