Tore

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Töre in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, Туре in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, Toure in SN Senegal, ML Mali and Торе in KZ Kazakhstan.

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●

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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

Other names spelled this way◐

Tore is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name6.3K records spelled Tore5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Norway, United States, Italy

  Languages: Spanish, Italian

  Also written Töre, Toré, Torè

• a separate given name5.4K records spelled Tore3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, Canada

  Also written Töre, Toré

• Portuguese given name2.7K records spelled Tore3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Norway, Sweden, Italy

  Also written Toré, Töre

• French given name1.5K records spelled Tore8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Norway, Spain, Italy

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Toré, Töre, Torè, Tòrę, Törë

• a separate given name895 records spelled Tore4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States, India, Sweden

  Also written Töre, Toré, Tȯre

• Indonesian given name290 records spelled Tore4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Italy, United States, Indonesia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Töre

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Tore is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Norwegian Bokmål, to dare

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Tore är ett nordiskt namn, som kommer av ett *Þórvér, antingen sammansatt av → Tor- och urnordiskt *wīhar ’kämpe’ eller ett sammansatt ord med den totala betydelsen ’Torspräst’ eller ’åskpräst’ (jfr → Sölve). Tore kan också ursprungligen vara en avledning till gudanamnet → Tor. I den rikssvenska almanackan 19 oktober och i den finlandssvenska 8 juli.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Salvatore

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Akan, 4. t. ase, to cut off, extirpate. I Ki.it, 16. - 5. to sink, sub- side, decrease in volume, as liquids by coagulation; niio no ada nti, atore; cf. anitore

  as a word·Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

• Scandinavian: from the Old Norse personal name órir , apparently originally composed of the name of the god Thor ( órr ) + Old Norse verr man. It has also been interpreted as a derivative form from órr . As early as the Viking period, however, the form óri was being used as a short form of all the compound names with the first element órr . Variant: Ture .

  as a word

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.

Over time●

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 79 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tore Holmb. 1896SESwedish yacht designer, boatbuilder, and sailor (1896–1977)
• Tor Johnsonb. 1903SEnot in their usual nameSwedish professional wrestler and actor (1902-1971)
• Tore Kellerb. 1905SESwedish association football player (1905-1988)
• Tore Lokolokob. 1930PGPapua New Guinea politician (1930–2013)
• Jacques Werupb. 1945SEnot in their usual nameSwedish writer, poet, screenwriter, musician (1945-2016)
• Tore Johanssonb. 1959SESwedish musician
• Tore Pedersenb. 1969NONorwegian association football player
• Tore Renbergb. 1972NONorwegian novelist and musician
• Tore Sagenb. 1980NONorwegian actor and comedian
• Tore Reginiussenb. 1986NONorwegian association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 267 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tore?

We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Tore (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Tore have the most bearers?

Tore is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled töre.

Where is Tore most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tore is densest in Norway — about 1 in 388 people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.

How common is Tore compared with other names?

In Norway, Tore is the 48th most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.

Is Tore a male or female name?

Tore is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Tore mean?

Recorded meaning: alternative form of tora (“to dare”)