Thor is the name of the Norse god of "thunder", protector of gods and humans, whose hammer Mjolnir is one of the most recognizable symbols of Scandinavian mythology. The name lives on in Thursday and in Marvel's Thor films, which brought it to a new audience from 2011 on. In the United States Thor peaked at number 1441 in 2014 and has settled at number 2875 in 2025.