Trygve

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Male Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Tryggve

Related Names

See *Triggwa

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Trygve
Genitive:	Trygves

- Finnish
Nominative:	Trygve
Genitive:	Trygven
Partitive:	Trygveä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Trygve
Genitive:	Trygves

- Swedish
Nominative:	Trygve
Genitive:	Trygves

Name Day

Norway

9 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 19th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway: 1910-1915
• Denmark: 1910-1919

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark: Bornholm
• Norway: Vest-Agder

Namesakes

• Trygve Halvdan Lie (16 July 1896 – 30 December 1968), Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official and author
• Trygve Martin Bratteli (11 January 1910 – 20 November 1984), former Prime Minister of Norway (1971-1972 + 1973-1976)
• Trygve Magnus Haavelmo (13 December 1911 – 28 July 1999), Norwegian economist and Nobel laureate (Economics, 1989)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		92	214	0	0	92	214
Denmark		101	n.a.	0	n.a.	101	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	173	0	0	n.a.	173
Iceland		2	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		5005	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	5005	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend