Entry № 10680 · Old Norse origin

Torhild Torhild — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TOR-hild /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Thors battle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "thors battle".

It carries thunderous strength and resolve.

Thors battle — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Torhild
Transliteration
Torhild
Pronunciation
/ ˈtoːr.hɪld /
Root
Grammatical form

What Torhild is built from.

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

hild
Germanic
“battle”

Where Torhild stands.

Torhild 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.

Torhilds before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Torhild.

The number behind Torhild.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Torhild reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.