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Thorvald

Boys' name

Variant of Torvald

Thorvald has been given to 114 babies in the U.S. since 1888. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Thorvald, 1932

1 in 352,000

Thorvald over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thorvald: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Torvald

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thorvald means

Thorvald is a variant of Torvald.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Thorvald is used in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.

Origin, language, and formation

Thorvald is used in Danish.

Thorvald comes through Old Norse Þorvaldr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Torvald.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 114 boys were recorded with the name Thorvald between 1888 and 1932. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,169 in 1888.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Thorvald?

Thorvald had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1932, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1932
1 in 352,000
6 of 2,111,250 births
Among boys only
1 in 174,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1932
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
243,902 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thorvald sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1932 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 243,902 children born in 1932 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thorvald. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thorvalds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thorvald was born before 1919 — so the typical Thorvald is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
48.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 48.2% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Thorvald rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1916 (14)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,169
1888

Where Thorvald is used

Across 1910–2025, Thorvald was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 640,270 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Thorvald has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Thorvald around the world

Where Thorvald ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1995–2012
    #6,139
    in 2012
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #274
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Thorvald by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,169
1888
Peak year
1916
14 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
1932
All-time count
114
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Thorvald

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Thorvald

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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