Thorwald

Where Thorwald comes from

Thorwald hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1893
    Debut at its peak, #768
    #768 among boys with 8 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1941
    Thorwald Proll born
    German writer
  4. 1977
    Thorwald Veneberg born
    road bicycle racer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Thorwald Proll · German writer, born 1941
  • Thorwald Veneberg · road bicycle racer, born 1977
  • Thorwald Dethlefsen · German esotericist and author, 1946–2010
  • Thorwald Bergquist · Swedish jurist and politician, 1899–1972
  • Thorwald Jørgensen · Dutch musician, born 1980

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.