Torben

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Danish variant spelling of Thorben [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Þórbiǫrn

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Torbensen Denmark Norway
Torbenssen Norway

Female

Torbensdatter Denmark Norway

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Torben
Genitive: Torbens
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Torben
Genitive: Torbenin
Partitive: Torbenia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Torben
Genitive: Torbens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Torben
Genitive: Torbens

Name Day

Norway Norway

5 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Torben Oxe (died 29 November 1517), Danish nobleman

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&
Denmark Denmark[5]
19854
n.a.
0
n.a.
19854
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[6]
328 532 0 0 328 532
Greenland Greenland[7]
39 62
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
81 0 0
n.a.
81
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
490
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
490
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

Name statistics for Torben (m) Sources: [6][5][10][8]


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no