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Boy · Old Norse
Trygve
Say it: TRIG-veh
Meaning
From Old Norse tryggr 'trustworthy, true'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A saga name revived in Norway in the 19th century.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 358 babies given this name since 1907
- At its height in 1907, about 1 in 29,400 boys
- 5 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Tryggve
| Icelandic | Tryggvi |
|---|
Famous bearers
- Tryggvi Óláfsson, father of King Olaf Tryggvason
- Trygve Lie, first Secretary-General of the United Nations
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Where this comes from
- The Icelandic sagas and other Old Norse literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.