Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇩🇰 🇳🇴 Thorsten
/TOR · sten/
Meaning
“Thor”
Old Norse masculine name meaning 'Thor's stone' from Thor and steinn; used across Scandinavia and adopted widely in Germany during the mid-20th century.
Nicknames
torsten
Vibe
elegant
How it ages.
Mid-century Scandinavian-Germanic; peaked in Germany in the 1960s-80s and is now retro.
The cultural moment.
Common in Germany and Scandinavia from the 1960s through 1980s; declining since.