Trygve
Trygve is a masculine given name most common in Norway. Trygve is derived from the Old Norse tryggr, meaning "true, trustworthy", cognate with Old English treowe, Old High German triuwe. Gothic has triggws. The Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse form of the name is Tryggvi, e.g. Tryggve Olafsson.
- Norwegian
Meaning & Origin of Trygve
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Trygve is a masculine given name most common in Norway. Trygve is derived from the Old Norse tryggr, meaning "true, trustworthy", cognate with Old English treowe, Old High German triuwe. Gothic has triggws. The Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse form of the name is Tryggvi, e.g. Tryggve Olafsson.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Norwegian
The Story of Trygve
The earliest SSA record of Trygve as a baby boy name dates back to 1907, when 5 babies received it. 2015 was its biggest year on record, with 14 newborns named Trygve — #5,997 in the national rankings. About 25% of every Trygve on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Trygve last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 391 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1900s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Trygve
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Trygve. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Tryggve
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About the name Trygve
Trygve is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1907 and has accumulated 391 births in the dataset. Trygve's peak popularity came in 2015 when it ranked #5,997. Use the chart and map above to compare Trygve's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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