Given name
Þorgrímur
“thunder”
Þorgrímur is a masculine given name from Old Norse, meaning “thunder.” It is used in Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Old Norse Þorgrímr, built from Old Norse þórr (“thunder”) + Grímr.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Þorgrímur’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Þorgrímur shares a linguistic root with the Faroese form Torgrímur.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Þorgrímur
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