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01 / Meaning & origin
Yngve is a masculine given name documented in French, Swedish, Danish and 4 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Yngvi.
From Old Norse Yngvi, a name of the god Freyr, from Proto-Germanic *Ingwô. Doublet of Inge.
02 / Across borders
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03 / By the numbers
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1945–2025 Spelling: Yngve
Recorded category boys
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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 21 | 183 | observed |
| 1946 | 36 | 145 | observed |
| 1947 | 36 | 139 | observed |
| 1948 | 33 | 148 | observed |
| 1949 | 26 | 163 | observed |
| 1950 | 45 | 123 | observed |
| 1951 | 38 | 127 | observed |
| 1952 | 33 | 147 | observed |
| 1953 | 34 | 142 | observed |
| 1954 | 43 | 124 | observed |
| 1955 | 47 | 117 | observed |
| 1956 | 41 | 135 | observed |
| 1957 | 42 | 126 | observed |
| 1958 | 31 | 154 | observed |
| 1959 | 48 | 125 | observed |
| 1960 | 42 | 135 | observed |
| 1961 | 46 | 133 | observed |
| 1962 | 46 | 130 | observed |
| 1963 | 47 | 126 | observed |
| 1964 | 48 | 129 | observed |
| 1965 | 56 | 121 | observed |
| 1966 | 63 | 113 | observed |
| 1967 | 64 | 116 | observed |
| 1968 | 71 | 106 | observed |
| 1969 | 65 | 123 | observed |
| 1970 | 86 | 97 | observed |
| 1971 | 60 | 134 | observed |
| 1972 | 71 | 121 | observed |
| 1973 | 73 | 114 | observed |
| 1974 | 71 | 117 | observed |
| 1975 | 68 | 121 | observed |
| 1976 | 54 | 135 | observed |
| 1977 | 52 | 138 | observed |
| 1978 | 64 | 119 | observed |
| 1979 | 50 | 142 | observed |
| 1980 | 45 | 156 | observed |
| 1981 | 50 | 148 | observed |
| 1982 | 44 | 159 | observed |
| 1983 | 41 | 162 | observed |
| 1984 | 41 | 169 | observed |
| 1985 | 34 | 191 | observed |
| 1986 | 44 | 160 | observed |
| 1987 | 26 | 218 | observed |
| 1988 | 37 | 177 | observed |
| 1989 | 26 | 229 | observed |
| 1990 | 21 | 243 | observed |
| 1991 | 14 | 316 | observed |
| 1992 | 21 | 260 | observed |
| 1993 | 16 | 286 | observed |
| 1994 | 20 | 250 | observed |
| 1995 | 12 | 333 | observed |
| 1996 | 11 | 337 | observed |
| 1997 | 17 | 267 | observed |
| 1998 | 5 | 492 | observed |
| 1999 | 7 | 427 | observed |
| 2000 | 11 | 338 | observed |
| 2001 | 7 | 400 | observed |
| 2002 | 5 | 457 | observed |
| 2003 | 6 | 442 | observed |
| 2004 | 5 | 473 | observed |
| 2005 | 10 | 334 | observed |
| 2006 | 6 | 446 | observed |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | 4 | 527 | observed |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | 7 | 424 | observed |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | 4 | 468 | observed |
| 2025 | 6 | 417 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Yngve” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
YNGVE
Esk, or Ask, has scarcely formed any names, but Ing, or Yngve, was looked on as the ancestor of the Swedish kings, who thence were called the Ynglinga; and the history which rationalizes Odin is thence termed the Ynglinga Saga, as it makes Yngve his son, and deduces the line from him. Ing, the son of Tuisco, is, however, a far more universal forefather, being almost without a doubt the name-father of that great race that we have called Angeln, Anglo-Saxons, and English.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter II (Names From Teuton Mythology), Section XIV (Ing—Seaxnot) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.
Swedish footballer and manager (1930-2016)
Swedish sailor (1895–1943)
Swedish guitarist
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
Swedish vocalist (1969–1991)
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
