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Torsten

#6,411 in 2025Boys' name

Thor's stone

Torsten has been given to 705 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #6,411 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Torsten, 2025

1 in 237,000

Torsten over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Torsten: meaning, origin, and history

Thor's stone

Danish

What Torsten means

Torsten means “Thor's stone”.

Origin, language, and formation

Torsten is used in Danish, German and Swedish. Its origins include Danish.

Torsten comes through Old Norse Þorsteinn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 705 boys were recorded with the name Torsten between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,725 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,904 in 2020 to #6,411 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,583 in 2015 to #6,411 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 Torsten?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,411
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Torsten 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Torsten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Torstens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Torsten was born before 2011 — so the typical Torsten is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
705
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Choose a decade

2010s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (255).

Is Torsten 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
−993
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,507
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,828
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.4%
Peak was 2009 (33)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,725
1968

Spellings of Torsten

Torsten is not the most common spelling — Tristen is, with 69.1% against Torsten's 2.3%.

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 Torsten is used

Across 1910–2025, Torsten was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 652,667 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Minnesota1 in —
  3. 3Washington1 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. Torsten has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Torsten around the world

Where Torsten 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
    2003–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2006
    #4,464
    in 2006
  • Canada
    2006–2017
    #2,308
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1956–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Torsten by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,411
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,507
Best rank ever
#2,725
1968
Peak year
2009
33 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
705
Count in 2025
14

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

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Sibling names for Torsten

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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