Ager
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who or that which ages something
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ejdʒɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ager is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Central African Republic than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 226K
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ager itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Central African Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Central African Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aeger in GH Ghana.
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)
One who or that which ages something.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ager 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CF Central African Republic | #12 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Ager | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Ager | 17 |
| US United States | — | 1,469 | 1 in 226K | 1.5K | Ager | 228 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Ager | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 57K | listed | Ager | 135 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Aeger | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Ager | 41 |
| DK Denmark | — | 267 | 1 in 22K | 267 | Ager | 40 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the bbc-pronouncing-dictionary-british-names register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Ager 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 English, Milton, American songwriter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Sundanese, well-known seaweed from which a jelly is made, gelatine
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Romanian, quick, swift.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, field, acre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmq-scy, a field
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)
- Pedro Agerreb. 1556ESnot in their usual nameBasque priest and writer
- Nikolaus Agerb. 1568FRFrench botanist (1568-1634)
- Waldemar Agerb. 1869NOAmerican newspaper publisher
- Milton Agerb. 1893USAmerican composer (1893–1979)
- Shana Alexanderb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist (1925–2005)
- Klaus Agerb. 1946ATAustrian composer
- Nikita Agerb. 1969USAmerican singer and actress
- Rob Agerb. 1973British internet film critic
- Deborah Agerb. 1976USAmerican poet
- Maurice Agerb. 1984USAmerican basketball player (born 1984)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,703 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,077 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,745 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 267 | #1,803 |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Ager mean, and where does it come from?
- One who or that which ages something. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ager?
- A machine transcription gives /ejdʒɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ager have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Ager in the Central African Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ager.
- How common is the name Ager?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,469 people named Ager in 2010, about 1 in 226 thousand residents.
- How common is Ager compared with other names?
- In the Central African Republic, Ager is the 12th most common surname of 1,109 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ager?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agerThe 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, “Ager” — the 12th most common surname in Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.