Tora
Tora was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,835 among girls’ names; 1,016 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tora mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Tora is “a female given name, equivalent to English Thora, short for names beginning with Tor-”
From Old Norse.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tora?
#10,835 among girls’ names, 2025
Tora entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,835 in 2025.
53 babies in 1976, the peak
Tora peaked in 1976, when 53 girls were given it, #1,789 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,835 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,035 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,334 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,616 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,416 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,905 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,560 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,383 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,734 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,078 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 20 | #6,426 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,478 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,185 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,062 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,852 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,595 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,033 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,596 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,353 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,861 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,223 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,745 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,115 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,211 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,682 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,315 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,074 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,613 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,496 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,482 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,573 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,240 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,412 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,393 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,841 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,993 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,351 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,725 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,099 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,242 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,877 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,802 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,189 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,951 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,526 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,537 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,429 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,160 | 28.7 |
| 1976 | 53 | #1,789 | 36.2 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,352 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,912 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,450 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,742 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,170 | 22.8 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,570 | 16.6 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,699 | 14.8 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,597 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,950 | 5.5 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,534 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,438 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,576 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,515 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,800 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,133 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,517 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,445 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,652 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,616 | 4.1 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,941 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,194 | 3.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,799 | 4.8 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,539 | 4.2 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,248 | 4.6 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,571 | 7.9 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,379 | 15.1 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,682 | 23.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,016 Americans recorded as Tora, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tora, and how old are they?
An estimated 933 Americans named Tora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 21 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 926 people named Tora (853 women and girls, 73 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 879 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 47,967 babies since 1880, Tora is the fifth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 201 babies (4.5%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tora
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tora and names like it
- Compare Tora and ToriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTora peaked in 1976.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tora since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Tora: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Tora.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tora alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.