Hegé
surname · Latin script
Hegé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Spelling variant of Hæge, a dialectal form of Helga with a loss of -l- following a lengthening of the preceding vowel.
- NONorway1 in 429(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 67K
- DKDenmark1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 429 (inferred from the name graph)
12,738 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hege in NO Norway.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Spelling variant of Hæge, a dialectal form of Helga with a loss of -l- following a lengthening of the preceding vowel.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hegé 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 12,738 | 1 in 429 | 42K | Hege | 24 |
| SE Sweden | 152 | 1 in 67K | 152 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 56 | 1 in 105K | 56 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 24 | 1 in 720K | 24 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 8 | 1 in 696K | 57 | — | 1 |
12,738 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hegé mean, and where does it come from?
- Spelling variant of Hæge, a dialectal form of Helga with a loss of -l- following a lengthening of the preceding vowel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Hegé have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Hegé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hege.
- Where is Hegé most common?
- Hegé is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 429 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hegé?
- In Norway, the national register counted 12,738 people named Hegé in 2025, about 1 in 429 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heg%C3%A9The 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, “Hegé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.