Torsten

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Swedish and Danish younger form of Thorsten [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Þórstæinn

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Torstensen Denmark Norway
Torstenson Sweden
Torstensson Sweden

Female

Torstensdatter Denmark Norway
Torstensdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Torsten
Genitive: Torstens
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Torsten
Genitive: Torstenin
Partitive: Torstenia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Torsten
Genitive: Torstens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Torsten
Genitive: Torstens

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

27 February

Sweden Sweden

23 February

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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 NNNobel.png (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 Sweden[7]
3540 13984 0 2 3540 13982
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
2995 0 0
n.a.
2995
Denmark Denmark[9]
1068
n.a.
0
n.a.
1068
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
1 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
144
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
144
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
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

Name statistics for Torsten (m) Sources: [7][9][11][8]

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/