Thorsten

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Thorsten is a male name .

Origin and meaning of the name

The name Thorsten comes from the Nordic and is composed of the parts of the word Thor (the Germanic god of thunder and war) and Nordic 'stone'. So you can freely translate the name as Thor's stone , Thor's hammer , Thor's ax or as (stone) hard as Thor .

Thor and especially the Thorhammer were long considered a commitment to the old tradition and paganism in Scandinavia during the long lasting conversion through Christianity.

distribution

Þorsteinn as a modern Icelandic form of the name was among the 30 most popular names in Iceland in 2011 .

Not unusual in Germany since 1950, Thorsten was one of the most common first names between 1960 and 1980. Since around 1985 this boy name is no longer modern.

Variants and similar names

  • Torsten, Thorsten, Torston
  • Thurstan
  • Thorstein, Torstein ( Norwegian ), Þorsteinn , Þórsteinn ( Thorsteinn , Icelandic), old Þórstæinn
  • Торстен (Bulgarian)

Similar names are: Thoram , T [h] orben , T [h] orbjö / ørn , T [h] orolf , T [h] orw / vald , T [h] orfinn

name day

Well-known namesake

Thurstan

  • Thurstan († 1140), Archbishop of York

Torstein, Thorstein, Thorsteinn

Thorsten

Torsten

Torsten is the family name of the following person:

Torsten is the first name of the following people:

stage name

Individual evidence

  1. nordicnames.de: ÞOR
  2. nordicnames.de: STEIN
  3. ^ Statistics Iceland
  4. [1] : First names Torsten, Thorsten
  5. nordicnames.de: Þorsteinn