Torild
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tuːriːld/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Torild is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Apparently a dialectal form of Torvald. First recorded in Sweden in 1722 as Thorild.
- SESweden1 in 48K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 900as Torill
- DKDenmark1 in 147Kas Torill
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Torild 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
6,078 named Torill, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Torill in NO Norway.
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)
Apparently a dialectal form of Torvald. First recorded in Sweden in 1722 as Thorild.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Torild 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.
6,078 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Torild Branderb. 1904FIbotanist (1904-1992)
- Torild Skardb. 1936NONorwegian politician
- Torild Hammerb. 1950NONorwegian author
- Torild Wardenærb. 1951NONorwegian poet (born 1951)
- Torild Inger Børretzenb. 1951NONorwegian painter
- Torild Storvik Malmedalb. 1953NONorwegian sculptor
- Torild Øyun Hanssenb. 1955NONorwegian politician
- Torild Skogsholmb. 1959NONorwegian politician
- Torild Skrivarhaugb. 1963NONorwegian researcher
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 11 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 Torild mean, and where does it come from?
- Apparently a dialectal form of Torvald. First recorded in Sweden in 1722 as Thorild. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Torild?
- A machine transcription gives /tuːriːld/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Torild a male or female name?
- Torild 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 Torild?
- In the etymology graph, Torill, Toril and Torhild are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Torild have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Torill, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Torild most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Torild is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Torild?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 214 people named Torild, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Torild?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/torildThe 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, “Torild”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.