Entry № 10567 · Norse origin

Thorhild Thorhild — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TOR-hild /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Norse
Meaning
"Thor's battle (Þórhildr - Leif Erikson's mother)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Norse)

A name that means "thor's battle (þórhildr - leif erikson's mother)".

Thorhild is from the Old Norse Þórhildr — Thor (the thunder god) + hildr (battle). Þórhildr Jǫrundardóttir (c. 1000 CE, nearly 500 years before Columbus). After her conversion to Christianity (c.

Thor's battle (Old Norse). 1000 CE.

The name in its native script.

Þórhildr
Transliteration
Þórhildr
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɔːr.hɪld /
Root
Grammatical form

What Thorhild is built from.

Thorhild is a compound name. Its parts are Þórr + hild — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

Þórr
Old Norse
“the god Thor”
hild
Germanic
“battle”

Where Thorhild stands.

Thorhild does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Thorhilds before her.

Real people
Þórhildr Jǫrundardóttir
Leif Erikson's mother + first Christian church in Americas.
c. 970 – ?
In fiction
Thorhild
Norse Thor's battle.

Names connected to Thorhild.

The number behind Thorhild.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Thorhild reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.