Torsten

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Swedish and Danish younger form of Thorsten

Related Names

See Þórstæinn

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Torstensen
Torstenson
Torstensson

Female

Torstensdatter
Torstensdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Torsten
Genitive:	Torstens

- Finnish
Nominative:	Torsten
Genitive:	Torstenin
Partitive:	Torstenia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Torsten
Genitive:	Torstens

- Swedish
Nominative:	Torsten
Genitive:	Torstens

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

27 February

Sweden

23 February

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway: 1900-1905
• Sweden: 1910-1929
• Denmark: 1960-1979

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Sønderjylland
  • Sjælland
  • Nordjylland
  • Vestjylland
• Sweden:
  • Dalsland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Torsten Rudenschöld (30 March 1798 - 27 May 1859), Swedish educator and social reformer
• Torsten Nils Wiesel, * 3 June 1924, Swedish ophthalmologist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1981)

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		3540	13984	0	2	3540	13982
Finland		n.a.	2995	0	0	n.a.	2995
Denmark		1068	n.a.	0	n.a.	1068	n.a.
Iceland		1	3	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		144	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	144	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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Torsten (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.