Given name
Tyge
“from the fenced-in pasture”
Tyge is a variant of Tye. One English interpretation is “from the fenced-in pasture.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tyge is a variant of Tye. One English interpretation is “from the fenced-in pasture.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Tyge is a variant of Tye. An origin associated with Tye is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tyge through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 72
- 72 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1972
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1972. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 140 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tyge’s family of names
Tyge developed from Tycho. Tyge has a related form in Tye. In Danish usage, Tyge has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Tycho.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tyge
- Tyge W. BöcherDanish botanist (1909-1983)
- Tyge HvassDanish architect (1885–1963)
- Tyge Jesper RotheDanish author and historian (1731-1795)
- Tyge DahlgaardDanish politician (1921–1985)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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