Tor

maleStatistical record

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

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

Tor: Recorded every year since 1945, it reached #10 in 1948, and it stood at #203 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
108times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#10highest recorded position
24groupings it qualifies for
26names it appears alongside

What stands out in Tor's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 57 years running. Names by top-100 run
Shares a published list with another name across 81 years. Longest shared records

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1997	#1578
1998	#2074
1999	#1281
2000	#2501
2001	#1746
2002	#2636
2003	#1962
2004	#1878
2005	#1851
2006	#2087
2007	#2435
2008	#4432
2009	#3744
2010	#2400
2011	#1688
2012	#2270
2013	#3315
2014	#3362
2015	#4747
2016	#4023
2017	#3449
2018	#2693
2019	#3937
2020	#2960
2021	#3990
2022	#3449

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2022: #141 among boys in Norway, #3449 among boys 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 #14 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #10 among boys in Norway, in 1948 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #203 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Tor appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 21,121 births with the name.

Tor 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.

Tor'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 · Boys	#14 (1945)	#10 (1948)	#203 (2025)	81 of 81	21,121 (1945–2025)	553 (1967)
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#1281 (1999)	#3449 (2022)	27 of 27	166 (1996–2022)	13 (2011)

Tor by decade in Norway · Boys

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 Tor in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	2,530	5 of 10	506
1950s	5,009	10 of 10	501
1960s	5,036	10 of 10	504
1970s	3,477	10 of 10	348
1980s	2,372	10 of 10	237
1990s	1,497	10 of 10	150
2000s	644	10 of 10	64
2010s	371	10 of 10	37
2020s	185	6 of 10	31

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 506 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Tor 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: #10 in Norway in 1955.

Tor'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
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1688	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2400	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1878	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1281	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#203	22	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#167	30	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#168	32	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#141	39	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#169	29	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#145	33	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#188	28	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#153	40	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#167	34	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#142	46	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#169	36	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#205	28	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#146	46	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#148	44	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#183	31	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#162	38	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#152	44	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#145	46	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#131	55	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#124	62	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#106	75	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#127	55	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#118	58	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#101	72	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#89	80	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#78	97	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#71	111	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#68	114	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#55	138	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#55	141	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#61	129	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#48	168	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#62	136	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#48	181	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#45	195	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#47	184	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#45	195	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#37	197	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#43	181	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#33	217	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#28	228	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#22	265	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#22	261	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#24	261	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#26	266	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#20	301	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#25	265	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#21	279	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#18	317	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#21	303	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#21	304	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#15	354	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#16	400	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#15	420	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#13	436	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#17	399	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#13	487	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#13	513	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#12	553	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#14	515	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#14	502	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#14	510	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#14	508	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#19	436	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#12	509	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#13	503	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#12	496	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#13	516	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#11	487	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#13	451	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#10	535	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#11	499	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#10	519	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#10	490	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#11	504	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#10	512	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#12	493	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#10	545	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#14	504	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#14	523	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#14	465	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 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #10, first reached in 1948.

It held a top-100 place in 57 years, 57 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 553 births, registered in Norway in 1967.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 51 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.

Tooba · #2970, 17y
Toprak · #1812, 15y
Tor-Arne · #312, 29y
Tor-Erik · #287, 29y

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.

Gunnar · #10, 81y
Eirik · #11, 81y
Hanne · #9, 80y
Kristoffer · #11, 80y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Aud · #10, 59y
Barbara · #10, 79y
Elsie · #10, 47y
Gunnar · #10, 81y

Comparisons involving Tor

Existing comparison pages where Tor and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Tor in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Aksel vs Tor
Aksel and Tor were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #25 and #203.
Aksel · Tor · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Anders vs Tor
Anders and Tor were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #293 and #203.
Anders · Tor · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Andreas vs Tor
Andreas and Tor were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #96 and #203.
Andreas · Tor · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Tor measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Tor at its highest position.

Arne vs Tor
Arne and Tor were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #222 and #203.
Arne · Tor · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Bjørn vs Tor
Bjørn and Tor were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #56 and #203.
Bjørn · Tor · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Christian vs Tor
Christian and Tor were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #131 and #203.
Christian · Tor · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Tor was ranked #10 in Norway · Boys in 1948. 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.

Tor 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 Tor without appearing here.

Tor moved ahead of

Jade Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3937 and #3411 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #2960 and #3848.
Barry Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3990 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #4001.
Grant Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3990 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #4001.
Shannon Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4432 and #4432 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #3315 and #3822.

Moved ahead of Tor

Gustav Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2960 and #3334 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #3990 and #2125.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2693 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #2104.
Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #2636 and #848.
Hans Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3315 and #4685 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #3362 and #1819.

Moved the opposite way to Tor

Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Tor went from #14 to #203 while Daniel went from #280 to #66.
David Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Tor went from #14 to #203 while David went from #167 to #88.
Emil Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Tor went from #14 to #203 while Emil went from #271 to #2.
Even Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Tor went from #14 to #203 while Even went from #180 to #42.

Moved the same way as Tor

Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Tor went from #14 to #203 and Arild from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Tor went from #14 to #203 and Arne from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Tor went from #14 to #203 and Bjørn from #3 to #56.
Dag Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Tor went from #14 to #203 and Dag from #48 to #426.

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: #10 in Norway in 1955. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Tor

Tor at a glance

What stands out in Tor's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tor across 2 official records

Tor by decade in Norway · Boys

Tor appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Tor

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Tor

Tor and the names beside it

Tor moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Tor

Moved the opposite way to Tor

Moved the same way as Tor

Tor at a glance

What stands out in Tor's record

Tor across 2 official records

Tor by decade in Norway · Boys

Tor appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Tor

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Tor

Tor and the names beside it

Tor moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Tor

Moved the opposite way to Tor

Moved the same way as Tor