Given name
Torunn
“thor's love”
Torunn is used as a given name. One interpretation is “thor's love.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “thor's love.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Torunn through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 76
- 0 boys · 76 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −100%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Torunn’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Torunn has a related form in Taran. Torunn has a related form in Torrun. Torunn has a related form in Torrunn.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Torunn
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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