Given name
Troels
“Thor”
Troels is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Danish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Troels is built from elements meaning “Thor"” and “"pledge”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Troels’s family of names
In Danish usage, Troels shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian form TRULS. In Norwegian usage, Troels has a related form in TRULS.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Troels
- Troels RasmussenDanish footballerborn 1961
- Troels Lund PoulsenDanish politicianborn 1976
- Troels LybyDanish actorborn 1966
- Troels VintherDanish road bicycle racer, born 1987
- Troels Troels-LundDanish historian (1840–1921)
- Troels BechDanish footballer and managerborn 1966
- Troels HarryDanish curlerborn 1990
- Troels KløveDanish association football playerborn 1990
- Troels KløvedalDanish author (1943-2018)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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