Torben
Torben (also: Thorben ) is a male given name , which is particularly common in Scandinavia and Northern Germany. Torben is a Danish variant of the Norwegian Thorbjørn , Thorben with "h" the corresponding Swedish spelling.
Meaning of the name
The first part of the name can be derived from Thor , the Germanic thunder and sky deity, the second from the word Björn , North Germanic for bear or brown (in the broader sense also chief ).
distribution
In Germany, the names Torben and Thorben were the 139th most popular first names for boys in 2007 . In Denmark, according to the official statistics office Danmarks Statistics , 22,446 citizens with the first name Torben were recorded on January 1, 2007. The name is not widely used in Germany.
Name bearer
Form Torben
- Torben Agersnap (1922–2013), Danish sociologist
- Torben Beltz (* 1976), German tennis player and tennis coach
- Torben Blech (* 1995), German athlete
- Torben Brostrøm (* 1927), Danish literary historian, critic and university professor
- Torben Forsberg (* 1964), Danish cameraman
- Torben Giehler (* 1973), German painter
- Torben Hansen (* 1951), Danish football player
- Torben Hoffmann (* 1974), German soccer player
- Torben Jensen (* 1944), Danish actor
- Torben Klein (* 1976), German singer, bassist and composer (pop)
- Torben Köhlbrandt (* 1979), German show jumper and Nations Cup rider
- Torben Kuhlmann (* 1982), German communication designer, illustrator and picture book author
- Torben Liebrecht (* 1977), German actor, director and screenwriter
- Torben Miehle (* 1973), German musician, actor and film director
- Torben Piechnik (* 1963), former Danish football player
- Torben Rehfeldt (* 1993), German soccer player
- Torben Schmidtke (* 1989), German swimmer and athlete of the German Paralympic national team
- Torben Theine (* 1968), German tennis player
- Torben Ulrich (* 1928), Danish writer, musician, filmmaker and tennis player
- Torben Wosik (* 1973), German table tennis player
Form Thorben
- Thorben Deters (* 1995), German soccer player
- Thorben Döding (* 1999), German basketball player
- Thorben Koop (* 1997), German chess player
- Thorben Marx (* 1981), German football player
- Thorben Saggau (* 1987), German ice hockey player
- Thorben Stadler (* 1990), German soccer player
- Thorben Stahmer (* 1989), German volleyball player
Web links
Wiktionary: Torben - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Torben on vornames-weltweit.de
- ↑ beliebte-vornamen.de : 2007 - The most popular names of the year