Given name & surname · also Danish
Thorsen
Thorsen is a surname from Danish, ultimately from Norwegian. It is used in English, Danish, and Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Thorsen comes from Danish, and ultimately from Norwegian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Danish usage, Thorsen as a surname has a “son of” formation linked to Thor.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Thorsen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 63
- 63 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,615 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,615 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,897 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Thorsen’s family of names
In Danish usage, Thorsen as a surname has a “son of” formation linked to Thor. In English usage, Thorsen as a surname has a related form in THORESEN.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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