Trygve
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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.
Key facts
- Given Name Revised.name
- Trygve
- Given Name Revised.pronunciation
- TRIG-vee
- Given Name Revised.gender
- Male
- Given Name Revised.meaning
- Trustworthy
- Given Name Revised.language
- Norwegian
- Given Name Revised.origin
- Old Norse
- Given Name Revised.related names
- Tryggve, Tryggvi, Trigby
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- Instance of
- male given name
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- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- T621
- Cologne phonetics
- 2743
- Caverphone
- TRKF11
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- Trygve (given name)
- native label
- Trygve
- name day
- September 9
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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.
There were 5,951 people with the forename Trygve in Norway in 2009, declining to 5,432 in November 2015.
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