# Trygve

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**Trygve** is a masculine given name most common in [Norway](/source/Norway). Trygve is derived from the Old Norse *tryggr*, meaning "true, trustworthy",[1][2] cognate with [Old English](/source/Old_English) *[treowe](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/treowe)*, [Old High German](/source/Old_High_German) *triuwe*. Gothic has *triggws*. The Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse form of the name is Tryggvi, e.g. [Tryggve Olafsson](/source/Tryggve_Olafsson).

There were 5,951 people with the forename **Trygve** in Norway in 2009, declining to 5,432 in November 2015.

The following people share the forename **Trygve**:

- [Trygve Bendiksby](/source/Trygve_Bendiksby) (1907–1992), Norwegian judge
- [Trygve Berge](/source/Trygve_Berge) (born 1932), Norwegian Olympic downhill skier
- [Trygve Bjørgo](/source/Trygve_Bj%C3%B8rgo) (1916–1997), Norwegian poet and educator
- [Trygve Bornø](/source/Trygve_Born%C3%B8) (born 1942), Norwegian footballer
- [Trygve Braarud](/source/Trygve_Braarud) (1903–1985), Norwegian botanist
- [Trygve Bratteli](/source/Trygve_Bratteli) (1910–1984), Norwegian Prime Minister
- [Trygve Brodahl](/source/Trygve_Brodahl) (1905–1996), Norwegian cross-country skier
- [Trygve Brudevold](/source/Trygve_Brudevold) (1920–2021), Norwegian bobsledder
- [Trygve Bruvik](/source/Trygve_Bruvik) (born 1952), Norwegian engineer
- [Trygve Bull](/source/Trygve_Bull) (1905–1999), Norwegian lecturer and politician
- [Trygve Christoffer Busch](/source/Trygve_Christoffer_Busch) (1920–1999), Norwegian war hero
- [Trygve Bøyesen](/source/Trygve_B%C3%B8yesen) (1886–1963), Norwegian gymnast
- [Trygve Dalseg](/source/Trygve_Dalseg) (1898–1987), Norwegian marketing agent
- [Trygve Dehli Laurantzon](/source/Trygve_Dehli_Laurantzon) (1902–1975), Norwegian agronomist, newspaper editor and Minister of Agriculture
- [Trygve Allister Diesen](/source/Trygve_Allister_Diesen) (born 1967), Norwegian film producer and director
- [Trygve Gulbranssen](/source/Trygve_Gulbranssen) (1894–1962), Norwegian novelist
- [Trygve Goa](/source/Trygve_Goa) (1925–2013), Norwegian printmaker
- [Trygve Haavelmo](/source/Trygve_Haavelmo) (1911–1999), Norwegian economist and Nobel Prize laureate
- [Trygve Haugeland](/source/Trygve_Haugeland) (1914–1998), Norwegian politician
- [Trygve Helgaker](/source/Trygve_Helgaker) (born 1953), Norwegian professor
- [Trygve Hoff](/source/Trygve_Hoff) (1895–1982), Norwegian businessman and magazine editor
- [Trygve Daniel Holmedal](/source/Trygve_Daniel_Holmedal) (born 1999), Norwegian physicist
- [Trygve Johannessen](/source/Trygve_Johannessen) (born 1953), Norwegian footballer
- [V. Trygve Jordahl](/source/V._Trygve_Jordahl) (1898–1984), American bishop
- [Trygve Knudsen](/source/Trygve_Knudsen) (1897–1968), Norwegian philologist
- [Trygve de Lange](/source/Trygve_de_Lange) (1918–1981), Norwegian lawyer
- [Trygve Lie](/source/Trygve_Lie) (1896–1968), Norwegian politician and first United Nations Secretary General
- [Trygve Moe](/source/Trygve_Moe_(journalist)) (born 1927), Norwegian journalist
- [Trygve Moe](/source/Trygve_Moe_(politician)) (1920–1998), Norwegian politician
- [Trygve Nagell](/source/Trygve_Nagell) (1895–1988), Norwegian mathematician
- [Trygve Nilsen](/source/Trygve_Nilsen) (1893–1973), Norwegian politician
- [Trygve Nygaard](/source/Trygve_Nygaard) (born 1975), Norwegian footballer
- [Trygve Olsen](/source/Trygve_Olsen) (1921–1979), Norwegian politician
- [Trygve Owren](/source/Trygve_Owren) (1912–1987), Norwegian politician
- [Trygve Pedersen](/source/Trygve_Pedersen) (1884–1967), Norwegian sailor
- [Trygve Reenskaug](/source/Trygve_Reenskaug) (1930–2024), Norwegian computer scientist and professor
- [Trygve Rovelstad](/source/Trygve_Rovelstad) (1903–1990), American sculptor
- [Trygve Røed-Larsen](/source/Trygve_R%C3%B8ed-Larsen) (born 1939), Norwegian physicist
- [Trygve Schjøtt](/source/Trygve_Schj%C3%B8tt) (1882–1960), Norwegian sailor
- [Trygve Seim](/source/Trygve_Seim), Norwegian jazz saxophonist
- [Trygve Simonsen](/source/Trygve_Simonsen) (1937–2011), Norwegian politician
- [Trygve Stangeland](/source/Trygve_Stangeland) (1934–2011), Norwegian businessman
- [Trygve Stokstad](/source/Trygve_Stokstad) (1902–1979), Norwegian boxer
- [Trygve Utheim](/source/Trygve_Utheim) (1884–1952), Norwegian politician
- [Trygve Slagsvold Vedum](/source/Trygve_Slagsvold_Vedum) (born 1978), Norwegian politician
- [Trygve Wiese](/source/Trygve_Wiese) (born 1985), Norwegian singer
- [Trygve Wyller](/source/Trygve_Wyller) (born 1950), Norwegian theologian

## References

1. [Typical Scandinavian Names from O to Z](http://goscandinavia.about.com/od/interactivefuninfo/a/scandinavianame_3.htm)

1. [Behind the Name: Trygve](http://www.behindthename.com/name/trygve)

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