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Torunn

Girls' name

To love

Torunn has been given to 76 babies in the U.S. since 2009. 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 2011, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Torunn, 2020

1 in 668,000

Torunn over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Torunn: meaning, origin, and history

To love

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Torunn means

Torunn means “to love”, associated with unna.

Origin, language, and formation

Torunn is used in Norwegian.

Torunn comes through Old Norse Þórunn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 76 girls were recorded with the name Torunn between 2009 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2011; its best national rank was #10,335 in 2011.

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 Torunn?

Torunn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Torunn 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Torunn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Torunns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Torunn was born before 2014 — so the typical Torunn is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
86.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
76
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 86.8% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Torunn 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (11)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,335
2011

Spellings of Torunn

Torunn is not the most common spelling — Corynn is, with 37.5% against Torunn's 3.7%.

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.

Torunn around the world

Where Torunn 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.

  • Norway
    1880–2008
    #582
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1988–1988
    #657
    in 1988

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Torunn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,335
2011
Peak year
2011
11 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
76
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Torunn

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

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Sibling names for Torunn

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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