Given name
Viggo
“battle”
Viggo is a masculine given name from Germanic, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Swedish, Danish, Faroese, and Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Danish.
How it developed
From Old High German wīg, from Old Norse víg, from Proto-Germanic *wīgą; its root is Proto-Indo-European *weyk-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Viggo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,055
- 1,055 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 97 babies
- 2025
- 97
- #1,697 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +89%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 97 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,697 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 88.8% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, Minnesota had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (10). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 634 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.
Viggo’s family of names
In Danish usage, Viggo has a feminine form in Vigga.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Viggo
- Viggo MortensenAmerican actorborn 1958
- Viggo JensenDanish sportsman (1874–1930)
- Viggo BrunNorwegian mathematician (1885–1978)
- Viggo KampmannDanish politician (1910-1976)
- Viggo LarsenDanish actor and film director (1880–1957)
- Viggo JohansenDanish painter (1851-1935)
- Prince Viggo, Count of RosenborgDanish Royal (1893–1970)
- Viggo JensenDanish footballer (born 1947)
- Viggo FausböllDanish educator, translator, orientalist and linguist (1821–1908)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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