Entry № 10676 · Old Norse origin

Tora Tora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TOH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Thor's woman / thunder (Norwegian heritage)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Norse)

A name that means "thor's woman / thunder (norwegian heritage)".

Tora is from the Old Norse Þóra — feminine of Thor (Þórr), the Norse god of thunder. Tora Vasilescu (born 1951) — Romanian actress. Tora Sandström — Swedish-Finnish figure. Princess Tora — modern Scandinavian heritage naming.

Thor's woman (Old Norse).

The name in its native script.

Þóra
Transliteration
Þóra
Pronunciation
/ ˈtoʊ.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tora stands.

Tora 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.

Toras before her.

Real people
Tora Berger
Norwegian Olympic biathlon gold 2010 + 2014.
born 1981
Tora Aasland
Norwegian Higher Education Minister.
born 1942
In fiction
Tora
Old Norse feminine of Thor.

Names connected to Tora.

The number behind Tora.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tora reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.