# Thorsten (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/thorsten/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 233 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 233 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 6,544 |
| 2012 | 6 | 12,140 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,496 |
| 2014 | 10 | 8,064 |
| 2015 | 14 | 6,286 |
| 2016 | 13 | 6,687 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,598 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,667 |
| 2019 | 14 | 6,375 |
| 2020 | 18 | 5,204 |
| 2021 | 18 | 5,318 |
| 2022 | 15 | 6,124 |
| 2023 | 18 | 5,439 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,816 |
| 2025 | 13 | 6,764 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |

## People named Thorsten

- Thorsten Fink, German association football player and manager
- Thorsten Margis, German bobsledder
- Thorsten Kirschbaum, German footballer
- Thorsten Kaye, German-British actor
- Thorsten Weidner, German fencer
- Thorsten Schick, Austrian association football player
- Thorsten Schmitt, German Nordic combined skier
- Thorsten Wilhelms, German cyclist
- Thorsten Legat, German association football player and manager
- Thorsten Rund, German bicycle racer
- Thorsten Röcher, Austrian footballer
- Thorsten Kinhöfer, German football referee in the Fußball-Bundesliga

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.