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Tora

#10,835 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Þóra

Tora has been given to 1,016 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #10,835 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Tora, 2025

1 in 368,000

Tora over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tora: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Þóra

Old Norse

What Tora means

Tora is a form of Þóra.

Origin, language, and formation

Tora is used in Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Tora comes through Old Norse Þóra.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Þóra, Tore, Þórr, Thora and Tóra.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 990 girls were recorded with the name Tora between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1976; its best national rank was #1,682 in 1898.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,905 in 2020 to #10,835 in 2025.

In the United States, 26 boys were recorded with the name Tora between 1971 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1971; its best national rank was #3,938 in 1971.

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 Tora?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,835
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tora sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Toras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tora was born before 1980 — so the typical Tora is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
951
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Choose a decade

1970s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (321).

Is Tora 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
+200
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,930
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
17.0%
Peak was 1976 (53)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,682
1898

Spellings of Tora

Tora is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 10.3% against Tora's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tora is used

Across 1910–2025, Tora was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,063,217 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Mississippi1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6South Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Tora has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tora around the world

Where Tora 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #181
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tora by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,835
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,930
Best rank ever
#1,682
1898
Peak year
1976
53 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
990
Count in 2025
9

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,938
1971
Peak year
1971
8 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tora

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

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