Thora

Where Thora comes from

Short form of Old Norse female given names beginning with Þórr (“Thor”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Thora
  • Old Norse
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #651 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1894
    Peak, #609
    23 babies named Thora — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1911
    Thora Hird born
    British actress
  4. 1940
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,572.
  5. 1982
    Thora Birch born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Old Norse occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.
Namesakes
  • Thora Birch · American actress, born 1982
  • Thora Hird · British actress, 1911–2003
  • Thora Daugaard · Danish women's rights activist, pacifist, editor and translator, 1874–1951
  • Thora Hallager · Danish photographer, 1821–1884
  • Thora Bjorg Helga · Icelandic actress, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.