Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Thorsten” in the USA?

Number of people named “Thorsten” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Thorsten” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Thorsten” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Thorsten” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Thorsten” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Thorsten” by birth year

This chart shows how “Thorsten” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2006 6 0.000001517 6 -100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 -100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 -100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 -100%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 -100%
2018 13 0.000003697 13 -100%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 -100%
2020 18 0.000005388 18 -100%
2021 18 0.000005313 18 -100%
2022 15 0.000004434 15 -100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 -100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 -100%

Explore other names

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  10. Thorwald
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