Torsten
A Germanic name meaning "Thor's stone", worn in Scandinavia and Germany more than in Poland. Only about 140 men here carry it, and newborns essentially never get it now: most Poles have never met one.
Torsten Pronunciation
Torsten is pronounced TORS-ten (/ˈtɔrstɛn/).
What Torsten means
Where Torsten comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Torsten comes from the Old Norse Þórsteinn, a compound of Thor, the thunder god, and steinn, the word for stone. In English that reads as thor's stone. Vikings carried it through Scandinavia, and it settled into Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian records as an ordinary man's name. German took it as well, keeping it as Torsten or Thorsten.
The stone here does real work. It ties a mortal boy to the strongest god the Norse could name, and it grounds that thunder in something you can hold. To be named Torsten is to carry a god's name pinned to plain rock.
Torsten has no Polish diminutive. On a school register in Poland it stands apart from the Jakubs and Piotrs, plainly northern. The name keeps its two spellings, Torsten and Thorsten, and its meaning stays fixed: kamień thora, Thor's stone.
How many people are named Torsten
1 in 152473 men in Poland is named Torsten. 140 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2777 among male names.
Torsten as a middle name
Torsten is a first name for 140 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1893rd, between Tolga (22) and Tri (22).
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#1891 Teddy22
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#1892 Tolga22
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#1893 Torsten22
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#1894 Tri22
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#1895 Trojan22