Torbjörn

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Torbjörn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Benin it is the 71st most common given name. Recorded meaning: ) Thorbjöm: in den 1980er-.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 510(measured from records)
  • NONorway≈1 in 1.1Kas Torbjørn
  • BJBenin≈1 in 5.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Torbjörn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

20,018 people

Sources
84 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 510 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Torbjørn in NO Norway, DK Denmark and Torbjorn in GH Ghana.

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)

) Thorbjöm: in den 1980er-

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Torbjörn 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.

Where Torbjörn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#20720,0181 in 51020KTorbjörn84
NO Norway#440≈5,100 est.≈1 in 1.1K24KTorbjørn60
BJ Benin#71≈2,500 est.≈1 in 5.1K—Torbjörn5
FI Finland—4771 in 12K821Torbjörn9
GH Ghana#923≈400 est.≈1 in 74K—Torbjorn4
DK Denmark—226as Torbjørn1 in 26K226Torbjørn34

20,018 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Torbjörn is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Torbjorn

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, Benin, Norway

    Also written Torbjorn

  • Chinese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Finland, United States

    Also written Torbjorn, Tor-Bjorn

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Norway, United States, Benin

    Also written Torbjorn

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Torbjörn is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Swedish: from an Old Norse personal name composed of the name of the god Thor ( Pórr ) + Old Norse björn bear. Cognates: Danish: T(h)orbjørn, Torbe(r)n. Norwegian: Torbjørn. Pet form: Swedish, Danish: Tobbe .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Þorbjörn hornklofi, b. 900Torbjörn Caspersson, b. 1910Torbjörn Thedéen, b. 1931Torbjörn Jonsson, b. 1936Torbjörn Tännsjö, b. 1946Pugh Rogefeldt, b. 1947Torbjörn Nilsson, b. 1954Torbjörn Blomdahl, b. 1962Torbjörn Kornbakk, b. 1965Torbjörn Kartes, b. 1979

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Torbjörn
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—20K#215
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200412K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200312K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200812K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200512K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200612K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200712K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200912K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200212K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201012K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200112K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201112K—

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 Torbjörn mean, and where does it come from?
) Thorbjöm: in den 1980er- Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
In which country does Torbjörn have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Torbjörn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled torbjörn.
Where is Torbjörn most common?
Torbjörn is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 510 people carrying it.
Is Torbjörn a male or female name?
Torbjörn is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Torbjörn?
In the etymology graph, Björn, Torben and Tor are forms of the same name in other languages; Bjarne is a recorded short or pet form.
How common is the name Torbjörn?
In Sweden, the national register counted 20,018 people named Torbjörn, about 1 in 510 residents.
How common is Torbjörn compared with other names?
In Sweden, Torbjörn is the 207th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.

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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, “Torbjörn” — the 207th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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