Ege
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Aegean Sea
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɟɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ege is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 3.2K
- ATAustria≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Aegean Sea
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ege counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #558 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | #38 | Ege | 117 |
| CN China | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Ege | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | #427 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Ege | 12 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 243 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 104 | Ege | 18 |
| US United States | — | 232 | 1 in 1.4M | 856 | Ege | 121 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 8 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ege is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Bir çocuğu koruyan, işlerine bakan ve her hâlinden sorumlu olan kimse. 2. Yaşça büyük. 3. Sahip.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In cdo, catching the eye, attracting one’s notice
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of egeō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, third-person singular single-possession possessive of ég
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, extremely, immensely, greatly
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ege Bagaturb. 1937TRTurkish statesperson (1937–1990)
- Ege Aydanb. 1958TRTurkish actor (born 1958)
- Ege Okalb. 1990TRTurkish animator and director (born 1990)
- Ege Kökenlib. 1993TRTurkish actor (born 1993)
- Ege Ararb. 1996TRTurkish basketball player (born 1996)
- Ege Köksalb. 1996TRchess player
- Ege Tanmanb. 1998TRTurkish actor (born 1998)
- Ege Özkayimoglub. 2001TRTurkish association football player (born 2001)
- Demir Ege Tıknazb. 2004TRTurkish association football player (born 2004)
- Ege Gürelb. 2004TRTurkish actor (born 2004)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 54 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 243 | #399 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 200 | #34,922 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 32 | #34,922 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 12 | #408 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 8 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2022 | 3 | #1,861 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2022 | 1 | #2,330 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2021 | — | #38 |
Reference works 8
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ege mean, and where does it come from?
- Aegean Sea Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ege?
- A machine transcription gives /eɟɛ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Ege a male or female name?
- Ege is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ege have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Ege in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ege.
- How common is the name Ege?
- In the United States, the national register counted 232 people named Ege in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Ege compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ege is the 558th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ege?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/egeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ege” — the 558th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.