Given name & surname

Thwaites

Thwaites is a surname from Old Norse.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Thwaites comes from Old Norse.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Similar names

If you love Thwaites, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Old Norse

Raffles

“fox” · “hole”

No U.S. birth series

—

Old Norse

Grymes

Grymes is a surname from Old Norse.

No U.S. birth series

—

Old Norse

Scales

“shed, hut”

No U.S. birth series

—

Old Norse

Scholes

“hut, shed”

No U.S. birth series

—

Old Norse

Airas

Airas is a surname, possibly from Proto-Norse. It is used in Finnish.

No U.S. birth series

—

Germanic

Atte

Atte is a masculine given name from Old Norse, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Old Swedish.

No U.S. birth series

96% boys · 4% girls

Old Norse

Tráin

Tráin is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Faroese.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Tarje

“thunder” · “spear”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Thwaites’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Thwaites

A sister for Thwaites