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Trygve

Boys' name

Loyal, through Tryggvi

Trygve has been given to 391 babies in the U.S. since 1907. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2015, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Trygve, 2024

1 in 418,000

Trygve over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trygve: meaning, origin, and history

Loyal, through Tryggvi

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Trygve means

Trygve belongs to the name family reached through Trygve → Tryggvi. Its meaning is “loyal”.

Origin, language, and formation

Trygve is used in Norwegian.

Trygve comes through Old Norse Tryggvi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tryggvi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 391 boys were recorded with the name Trygve between 1907 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,529 in 1907.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Trygve?

Trygve had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trygve sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trygve. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trygves were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trygve was born before 1996 — so the typical Trygve is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
290
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Trygve rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2015 (14)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,529
1907

Where Trygve is used

Across 1910–2025, Trygve was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 374,632 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 100,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in —
  3. 3Washington1 in —
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Trygve has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Trygve around the world

Where Trygve ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #148
    in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Trygve by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,529
1907
Peak year
2015
14 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
391
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trygve

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Trygve

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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