Thorbjörn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, a less common spelling of Torbjörn
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/tu:rbj2:n`/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thorbjörn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 6.3K(measured from records)
- BJBenin≈1 in 35K
- FIFinland1 in 155K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,608 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, a less common spelling of Torbjörn
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Thorbjörn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,608 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Axel Gustafssonb. 1839SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician (1839-1872)
- Thorbjörn Widellb. 1917SESwedish actor (1917-1973)
- Thorbjörn Lengbornb. 1919SESwedish university teacher and theologian (1919-2014)
- Thorbjörn Fälldinb. 1926SESwedish 20th century prime minister (1926-2016)
- Thorbjörn Spängsb. 1952SESwedish journalist
- Thorbjörn Englundb. 1979SESwedish guitarist
- Thorbjörn Sievertb. 1990DEresearcher
- Thorbjörn ÅkerströmDKresearcher in Copenhagen
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.6K | #1,227 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 974 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 972 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 971 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 971 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 970 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 969 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 967 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 967 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 966 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 966 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 963 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Thorbjörn mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, a less common spelling of Torbjörn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Thorbjörn?
- In the etymology graph, Torben, Tor and Thorben are forms of the same name in other languages; Bjarne is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Thorbjörn?
- A machine transcription gives /tu:rbj2:n`/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Thorbjörn a male or female name?
- Thorbjörn is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Finland (DVV).
- In which country does Thorbjörn have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Thorbjörn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thorbjörn.
- Where is Thorbjörn most common?
- Thorbjörn is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Thorbjörn?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,608 people named Thorbjörn, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Thorbjörn compared with other names?
- In Benin, Thorbjörn is the 869th most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Thorbjörn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thorbj%C3%B6rnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Thorbjörn” — the 869th most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.