Given name
Torstein
“Thor”·“stone”
Torstein is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk.
Original Old NorseÞorsteinn
Meaning & origin
What it means
Torstein is built from elements meaning “Thor” and “stone”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Torstein through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2014.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Torstein’s family of names
Torstein shares a linguistic root with Torsten. In Faroese usage, Torstein has a conventional equivalent in the German form Thorsten. In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Torstein has a related form in Thorstein.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Torstein has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Old Norse roots to each of them.
Old Norsewhere Torstein comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Torstein
- Torstein TræenNorwegian cyclistborn 1995
- Torstein HorgmoNorwegian snowboarderborn 1987
- Torstein DahleNorwegian politician and economistborn 1947
- Torstein StenersenSwedish biathleteborn 1988
- Torstein Aagaard-NilsenNorwegian composerborn 1964
- Torstein RaabyNorwegian resistance member (1918–1964)
- Torstein Andersen AaseNorwegian football strikerborn 1991
- Torstein EriksenNorwegian rally co-driverborn 1990
- Torstein LofthusNorwegian musicianborn 1977
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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