Thora

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Thora: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 10 years, its highest recorded position is #316, and it stood at #4,192 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#316highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Thora's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#3860
2009	#4564
2010	#5707
2011	#4764
2012	#2969
2013	#3536
2014	#3160
2015	#3252
2016	#2008
2017	#2925
2018	#1977
2019	#1703
2020	#2449
2021	#1962
2022	#1501
2023	#1774
2024	#4192

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 33 of the 79 years from 1945 to 2023.

In 2023: #459 among girls in Norway, #1774 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #366 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2023
Highest recorded position: #316 among girls in Norway, in 1947 (recorded 1945–2023).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Thora appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 33 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 187 births with the name.

Thora 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.

Thora'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	#366 (1945)	#316 (1947)	#459 (2023)	33 of 79	187 (1945–2023)	10 (2005)
England and Wales · Girls	#3860 (2008)	#1501 (2022)	#4192 (2024)	17 of 17	162 (2008–2024)	20 (2022)

Thora 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 Thora in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	19	3 of 10	6
1950s	20	4 of 10	5
1960s	4	1 of 10	4
1970s	12	2 of 10	6
1980s	10	2 of 10	5
1990sbusiest	39	6 of 10	7
2000s	51	9 of 10	6
2010s	20	4 of 10	5
2020s	12	2 of 10	6

Across Norway · Girls, the 1990s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Thora 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 2024. Highest recorded position: #316 in Norway in 1947.

Thora'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1703	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2008	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#459	6	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#432	6	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#515	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#498	6	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#601	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#579	5	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#496	7	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#488	7	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#627	4	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#618	4	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#397	10	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#518	6	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#641	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#615	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#450	8	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#588	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#426	9	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#656	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#603	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#473	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#597	6	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#670	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#547	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#467	7	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#554	4	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#435	5	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#466	4	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#412	5	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#353	6	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#316	8	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#340	7	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#366	4	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 2024, ranked in 42 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #316, first reached in 1947.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 63 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.

Thomasina · #357, 35y
Thor · #39, 81y
Thorbjørn · #112, 75y
Thore · #98, 46y

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.

Iseult · #316, 47y
Jenifer · #315, 44y
Nadja · #315, 38y
Van · #318, 43y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Edin · #312, 42y
Jette · #312, 17y
Tor-Arne · #312, 29y
Ragni · #311, 25y

Thora was ranked #316 in Norway · Girls in 1947. 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.

Thora 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 Thora without appearing here.

Thora moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1703 and #5591.
Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3536 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1977 and #5666.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #5581.
Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4764 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2969 and #5876.

Moved ahead of Thora

Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1774 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #1743.
Francis Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1774 and #1863 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #2574.
Freddie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1774 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #3318.
Cooper Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1774 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #3695.

Moved the opposite way to Thora

Mia Compare
Between 1947 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Thora went from #316 to #459 while Mia went from #357 to #12.
Sara Compare
Between 1947 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Thora went from #316 to #459 while Sara went from #385 to #24.
Kristin Compare
Between 2008 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Thora went from #3860 to #1774 while Kristin went from #2721 to #5687.
Tracey Compare
Between 2008 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Thora went from #3860 to #1774 while Tracey went from #2292 to #5687.

Moved the same way as Thora

Helen Compare
Between 1945 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Thora went from #366 to #515 and Helen from #149 to #400.
Hilde Compare
Between 1945 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Thora went from #366 to #515 and Hilde from #89 to #532.
Monica Compare
Between 1946 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Thora went from #340 to #515 and Monica from #315 to #542.
Patricia Compare
Between 1946 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Thora went from #340 to #515 and Patricia from #385 to #544.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2024. Highest recorded position: #316 in Norway in 1947. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Thora

Thora at a glance

What stands out in Thora's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Thora across 2 official records

Thora by decade in Norway · Girls

Thora appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Thora moved ahead of

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Thora at a glance

What stands out in Thora's record

Thora across 2 official records

Thora by decade in Norway · Girls

Thora 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 Thora

Thora and the names beside it

Thora moved ahead of

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