Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇩🇰 Thorben
/TOR · ben/
Meaning
“Thor bear”
Low German and Danish masculine name, a compound of Thor (the Norse god) and bjorn (bear); characteristic of northern German and Danish naming tradition.
Nicknames
thorbi
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Solid and Northern; ages with Viking-adjacent gravitas, distinctive without being eccentric.
The cultural moment.
Common in northern Germany and Denmark from the 1960s through 1990s; declining but still used.