Thorsten
A Germanic name meaning "Thor's stone", carried today by just over a hundred men in Poland. Most Poles will never meet one, and the record shows no boys given it in recent years.
Thorsten Pronunciation
What Thorsten means
Where Thorsten comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Thorsten comes from Germanic soil, and its oldest form is the Old Norse name Þórsteinn. That name binds the thunder god Thor to steinn, the word for stone. German speakers kept the sense as thor's stone.
The pairing is blunt. A god of storms set against plain rock. The stone gave the name its ballast, and Thor gave it noise, so the whole reads as strength held steady rather than strength on the move. It belongs to the old two-part Germanic names, where each half means something you can point at.
On a Polish class register, Thorsten stands out among the Piotrs and Jakubs, foreign but readable. The name has no Polish name-day of its own, so a boy called Thorsten borrows one or marks none. Say the two pieces back and you have the meaning entire: Thor, and the stone that holds his name, thor's stone.
How many people are named Thorsten
1 in 205252 men in Poland is named Thorsten. 104 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3359 among male names.
Thorsten as a middle name
Thorsten is a first name for 104 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2355th, between Terrence (16) and Toàn (16).
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#2353 Terencjusz16
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#2354 Terrence16
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#2355 Thorsten16
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#2356 Toàn16
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#2357 Troy16