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Thorsten

#6,760 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Torsten

Thorsten has been given to 233 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #6,760 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Thorsten, 2025

1 in 255,000

Thorsten over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thorsten: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Torsten

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thorsten means

Thorsten is a variant of Torsten.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Thorsten → Torsten. The family’s meaning is “Thor's stone”, recorded in the naming reference for Torsten.

Origin, language, and formation

Thorsten is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Torsten.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 233 boys were recorded with the name Thorsten between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2020; its best national rank was #3,568 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,200 in 2020 to #6,760 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,282 in 2015 to #6,760 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Thorsten?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,760
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thorsten sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thorsten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thorstens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thorsten was born before 2017 — so the typical Thorsten is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
233
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (107).

Is Thorsten rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+4,051
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,560
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−478
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.2%
Peak was 2020 (18)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,568
1969

Spellings of Thorsten

Thorsten is not the most common spelling — Thurston is, with 46.2% against Thorsten's 3.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Thorsten is used

Across 1910–2025, Thorsten was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Thorsten has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Thorsten around the world

Where Thorsten ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2011–2018
    #2,281
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1966–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Thorsten by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,760
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,560
Best rank ever
#3,568
1969
Peak year
2020
18 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
233
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Thorsten

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ThomsonThorenAugustenThorvaldThorsenClaytenThorfinnThorneKashtenChastenThorynThompsonKingstenThornBrixtenThorntonKlaytenThorwaldKastenCashtenWhittenBrightenKolstenDayten

Sibling names for Thorsten

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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