Tordis

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Faroese
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Þordís

Related Names

See Þordís

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Tordis
Genitive:	Tordis'

- Faroese
Nominative:	Tordis
Accusative:	Tordis
Dative:	Tordis
Genitive:	Tordisar

- Finnish
Nominative:	Tordis
Genitive:	Tordisin
Partitive:	Tordisia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Tordis
Genitive:	Tordis'

- Swedish
Nominative:	Tordis
Genitive:	Tordis' / Tordis

Name Day

Norway

9 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1917

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway: 1925-1935

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Østfold and Rogaland (late 18th century); Agder and Rogaland (ca. 1920-1940)

Namesakes

• Tordis Elfrida Witzøe Maurstad (24 December 1901 – 19 January 1997), Norwegian actress
• Tordis Ørjasæter (born 25 March 1927), Norwegian literary critic, professor of educational science, and author

Trivia

• Tordis is an IKEA product name (tablecloth)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		46	96	46	96	0	0
Denmark		44	n.a.	44	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	36	n.a.	36	0	0
Iceland		1	1	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		1602	n.a.	1602	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend