Baby name

FADING BOY · OLD NORSE
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Torsten

/TOR · sten/


“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.

torste

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.