Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇸🇪 🇳🇴 Torsten
/TOR · sten/
Meaning
“Old Norse name composed of Thor”
Old Norse name composed of Thor, the thunder god, and sten meaning 'stone'; a robustly Scandinavian name with genuine Viking-age roots.
Nicknames
torste
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Solid and distinguished in Scandinavia; reads as strongly regional outside Northern Europe.
The cultural moment.
Common in Germany and Scandinavia from the 1950s through the 1980s, now declining for newborns.