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Torben

#3,372 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Torbjörn

Torben has been given to 431 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #3,372 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Torben, 2025

1 in 94,700

Torben 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Torben: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Torbjörn

Danish

What Torben means

Torben is a form of Torbjörn.

Origin, language, and formation

Torben is used in Danish and German. Its origins include Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Torbjörn and Thorbjørn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 431 boys were recorded with the name Torben between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,372 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,799 in 2020 to #3,372 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,034 in 2015 to #3,372 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 Torben?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,372
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Torben 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Torben. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Torbens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Torben was born before 2018 — so the typical Torben is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
431
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (174).

Is Torben 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
+1,181
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+427
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,662
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.84×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (35)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,372
2025

Spellings of Torben

Torben is not the most common spelling — Loren is, with 26.5% against Torben's 0.25%.

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 Torben is used

Across 1910–2025, Torben was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 572,391 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 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. Torben has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Torben around the world

Where Torben 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
    1998–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #417
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1960–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Torben by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,372
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 427
Best rank ever
#3,372
2025
Peak year
2025
35 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
431
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Torben

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

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Sibling names for Torben

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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