Torsten
Torsten reached its high-water mark in 2009 at number 3,332, and has been recorded 705 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 690 Torstens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Torsten
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 705
- Estimated living today
- 690
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 3,332nd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1962
How old the living Torstens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 705 babies given the name since 1962, about 690 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Torstens
- Torsten Frings (born 1976)German association football player and manager
- Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 1924)Swedish neuroscientist
- Torsten Hägerstrand (1916–2004)Swedish geographer, inventor of time geography
- Torsten Voss (born 1963)East German bobsledder
- Torsten Palm (born 1947)Swedish racing driver
- Torsten Lindberg (1917–2009)Swedish footballer and manager
- Torsten May (born 1969)boxer
- Torsten Jansen (born 1976)German handball player
People named Torsten with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Torsten is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Torsten is most concentrated in California (5.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular boys’ names the year Torsten peaked:
Torsten elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Torsten | 81 | 2,730th |
| France boys | Torsten | 5 | 4,464th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Torsten among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Torsten | 212 | 864 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Torsten against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.