Tora

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Tora: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Tora: Recorded since 1945, it reached #126 in 2007, and it stood at #186 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
92times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#126highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2701
2000	#3912
2004	#4598
2005	#4798
2006	#5061
2007	#5201
2009	#3936
2012	#4838
2013	#4739
2014	#5691
2015	#5730
2017	#4763
2018	#5666
2020	#3447
2021	#3961
2022	#3148
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 75 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2023: #187 among girls in Norway, #5687 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #220 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #126 among girls in Norway, in 2007 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #186 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Tora appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 75 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 1,661 births with the name.

Tora across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Tora's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#220 (1945)	#126 (2007)	#186 (2025)	75 of 81	1,661 (1945–2025)	54 (1997)
England and Wales · Girls	#2701 (1998)	#2701 (1998)	#5687 (2023)	17 of 26	67 (1998–2023)	7 (2022)

Tora by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Tora in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	79	5 of 10	16
1950s	117	10 of 10	12
1960s	53	6 of 10	9
1970s	53	8 of 10	7
1980s	131	10 of 10	13
1990s	336	10 of 10	34
2000sbusiest	460	10 of 10	46
2010s	276	10 of 10	28
2020s	156	6 of 10	26

Across Norway · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 46 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Tora appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #126 in Norway in 2007.

Tora's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#186	26	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#183	26	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#187	27	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#192	23	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#162	28	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#187	26	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#202	25	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#157	35	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#269	19	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#209	27	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#205	27	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#185	32	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#211	27	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#232	25	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#252	22	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#169	37	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#140	50	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#156	42	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#126	52	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#141	47	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#129	48	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#144	41	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#138	45	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#139	42	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#146	42	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#129	51	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#194	28	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#144	46	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#132	54	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#144	48	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#184	32	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#192	30	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#185	34	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#217	25	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#255	22	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#311	17	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#284	18	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#230	26	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#361	13	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#341	14	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#314	15	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#484	8	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#508	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#469	8	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#309	14	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#468	8	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#458	8	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#649	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#526	6	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#581	5	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#409	9	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#435	8	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#451	8	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#548	5	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#311	12	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#583	4	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#340	10	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#494	5	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#252	14	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#350	8	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#279	12	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#369	7	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#394	6	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#298	10	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#339	8	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#248	13	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#316	9	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#160	28	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#255	12	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#256	12	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#241	14	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#265	11	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#260	12	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#180	25	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#220	17	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 75 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #126, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 54 births, registered in Norway in 1997.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 53 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Tor-Arne · #312, 29y
Tor-Erik · #287, 29y
Toralf · #183, 40y
Torben · #231, 60y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rasmus · #130, 78y
Wilhelm · #121, 73y
Cato · #85, 77y
Evy · #69, 80y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Jorid · #126, 49y
Aslak · #127, 81y
Vivi · #127, 57y
Ådne · #128, 67y

Tora was ranked #126 in Norway · Girls in 2007. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Tora and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Tora without appearing here.

Tora moved ahead of

Kari Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3148 and #5669.
Debra Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #5493.
Dianne Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5691 and #4003 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5666 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Tora

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #1628.
Cecilie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3148 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2504.
Noah Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #3615.
Ada Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2701 and #3142 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #1831.

Moved the opposite way to Tora

Tina Compare
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Tora went from #369 to #186 while Tina went from #326 to #488.
Gunn Compare
Between 1945 and 2005 in Norway · Girls, Tora went from #220 to #129 while Gunn went from #53 to #546.
Wendy Compare
Between 1953 and 2009 in Norway · Girls, Tora went from #316 to #140 while Wendy went from #385 to #581.
Jacqueline Compare
Between 1955 and 1995 in Norway · Girls, Tora went from #339 to #184 while Jacqueline went from #401 to #634.

Moved the same way as Tora

Aurora Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Tora went from #316 to #186 and Aurora from #390 to #14.
Hennie Compare
Between 1955 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Tora went from #339 to #186 and Hennie from #376 to #20.
Maya Compare
Between 1961 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Tora went from #350 to #186 and Maya from #497 to #86.
Olivia Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Tora went from #494 to #186 and Olivia from #488 to #2.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #126 in Norway in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Tora

Tora at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tora across 2 official records

Tora by decade in Norway · Girls

Tora appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

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Tora and the names beside it

Tora moved ahead of

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Tora at a glance

Tora across 2 official records

Tora by decade in Norway · Girls

Tora appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Tora

Tora and the names beside it

Tora moved ahead of

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