Given name & surname
Thorwald
Thorwald is a masculine given name. It is used in German.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Thorwald is a variant of Torvald. An origin associated with Torvald is Old Norse.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1893. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Thorwald through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 54
- 54 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1928. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1923.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Thorwald’s family of names
Thorwald has a related form in Torvald.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Thorwald
- Thorwald ProllGerman writer (born 1941)
- Thorwald Venebergroad bicycle racerborn 1977
- Thorwald DethlefsenGerman esotericist and author (1946–2010)
- Thorwald BergquistSwedish jurist and politician (1899–1972)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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