Toor

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Toor is a surname, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 278◐
  • SESweden1 in 1.8K
  • FIFinland1 in 6.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈28K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
203 ●

46K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 278 ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

TorLatin · Norwegian Bokmål●49K records

Locally spelled Tor in NO Norway, FI Finland, SE Sweden and 13 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Toor is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#5019,64310K rec.1 in 27849KTor125
IN India—6,4411.6K rec.—456Toor86
SE Sweden#6865,710△653 rec.1 in 1.8K5.7KTor56
GB United Kingdom—2,8121.7K rec.—listedToor87
CA Canada—2,7742.6K rec.—1Toor96
PK Pakistan—2,671460 rec.—1Toor55
US United States—93518K rec.1 in 356K1.8KToor203
AU Australia—932903 rec.—1Toor54
FI Finland#971909△58 rec.1 in 6.1K2.5KTor16
DK Denmark#879489△198 rec.1 in 12K489Tor83
NG Nigeria—371605 rec.—listedTor15
MX Mexico—3021.4K rec.——Tor37

Roughly 20K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 278). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English12K35%
  • Hindi9.6K29%
  • Urdu2.9K9%
  • 1.6K5%
  • Spanish8163%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English11,55335%
Hindi9,59929%
Urdu2,9019%
1,6315%
Spanish8163%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other recorded senses●

Toor is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In ami, to chase after; to pursue; to keep up with

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, indefinite plural of toa

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Afrikaans, to hex, cast a spell

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In nyn, take, receive

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In sco, A tower

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ki, dwell

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Cecil J. Toor, b. 1895Garry Toor, b. 1979Salman Toor, b. 1983Noam Toor, b. 1983Kabir Toor, b. 1990Tejinder Pal Singh, b. 1994Ridhi Kaur Toor, b. 2004

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Toor
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.8K#15,525
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,398
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000891#25,908
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—456#9,843
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—162#2,667
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200778#23,095
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—46#27,165
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—42#14,490
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—42#50,622
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—42#50,051
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—32#38,476
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—31#16,026

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 27 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Toor?
We estimate roughly 28 thousand people bear Toor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Toor have the most bearers?
We estimate about 20 thousand people bear Toor in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tor.
Where is Toor most common?
Toor is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 278 people carrying it.
How common is Toor compared with other names?
In Norway, Toor is the 50th most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Toor” — the 50th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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