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
- 1893Debut at its peak, #768#768 among boys with 8 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1894The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
- 1941Thorwald Proll bornGerman writer
- 1977Thorwald Veneberg bornroad 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.