Thorsten

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Swedish and Old Danish form of Þórstæinn

2) Variant spelling of Torsten

Related Names

See Þórstæinn

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Thorstensen
Thorstenson
Thorstensson

Female

Thorstensdatter
Thorstensdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Thorsten
Genitive:	Thorstens

- Finnish
Nominative:	Thorsten
Genitive:	Thorstenin
Partitive:	Thorstenia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Thorsten
Genitive:	Thorstens

- Swedish
Nominative:	Thorsten
Genitive:	Thorstens

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

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		253	1185	0	0	253	1185
Denmark		377	n.a.	0	n.a.	377	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	143	0	0	n.a.	143
Iceland		1	1	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		66	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	66	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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

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