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Trond

Boys' name

Man from Trøndelag

Trond has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1964, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Trond, 1984

1 in 698,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trond: meaning, origin, and history

Man from Trøndelag

Old Norse

What Trond means

Trond means “man from Trøndelag”, associated with þróndr.

Origin, language, and formation

Trond is used in Norwegian Nynorsk. Its origins include Old Norse.

Trond comes through Old Norse Þróndr and Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᚨᚹᛟᚹᛁᚾᛞᚢᛉ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tróndur, Þrándur and Throwend.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Nynorsk, Trond is pronounced /trund/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Trond between 1964 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1964; its best national rank was #4,557 in 1964.

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 Trond?

Trond had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1984
1 in 698,000
5 of 3,488,451 births
Among boys only
1 in 361,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1984
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
483,603 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trond 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 1984 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 483,603 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trond. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tronds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trond was born before 1969 — so the typical Trond is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Trond 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 1964 (5)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,557
1964

Spellings of Trond

Trond is not the most common spelling — Todd is, with 28.6% against Trond's <0.01%.

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.

Trond around the world

Where Trond 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
    1880–2023
    #424
    in 2023

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Trond 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
#4,557
1964
Peak year
1964
5 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trond

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

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Sibling names for Trond

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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