Torild
Norwegian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Torild
- a female given name, variant of Torhild
References
[edit]- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 1955 females (and no males) with the given name Torild living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Apparently a dialectal form of Torvald. First recorded in Sweden in 1722 as Thorild.
Proper noun
[edit]Torild c (genitive Torilds)
- a male given name
References
[edit]- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- Sture Allén, Staffan Wahlin, Förnamnsboken, Almqvist&Wiksell 1979, →ISBN: 606 men named Torild living in Sweden in 1972, with the frequency peak in 1910-1939 (compared to 55 women with a frequency peak in 1940-1969, statistically likely to represent Norwegian immigrants).