Uģis

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Vīrieša vārds

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Uģis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 862(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 35K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 78K

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.

Latvia (measured from records)

2,183 people

Sources
58 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 862 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ugis in NO Norway, GB United Kingdom, US United States and 3 more.

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)

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Uģis 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.

Where Uģis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#1332,1831 in 8622.2KUģis58
GB United Kingdom—≈46 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Ugis35
NO Norway—≈32 est.≈1 in 171K128Ugis7
US United States—≈24 est.≈1 in 14M—Ugis42
SE Sweden—191 in 537K19Ugis4
EE Estonia—≈16 est.≈1 in 78KlistedUgis6
IS Iceland—101 in 35K10——
LT Lithuania—≈9 est.≈1 in 306K—Ugis5

2,183 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Uģis is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ugis, Ugiş, Uğiş, Uğis

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Ugis, Уґіс

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ugis

  • Estonian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Estonia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Ugis

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Philippines, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ugis, Ugiş

  • Croatian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Ugis, Ugiş

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ugiş, Ugis

  • Turkish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Uğiş, Ugiş, Uğis, Ugis

17 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Uģis Prauliņš, b. 1957Uģis Rotbergs, b. 1961Uģis Lasmanis, b. 1967Uģis Krastiņš, b. 1970Uģis Briedis, b. 1970Uģis Vītiņš, b. 1971Uģis Olte, b. 1981Uģis Žaļims, b. 1986Uģis Jocis, b. 1993

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Uģis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—2.2K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—2.2K#250
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Uģis mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Is Uģis a male or female name?
Uģis 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 Uģis have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Uģis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uģis.
Where is Uģis most common?
Uģis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 862 people carrying it.
How common is the name Uģis?
In Latvia, the national register counted 2,183 people named Uģis, about 1 in 862 residents.
How common is Uģis compared with other names?
In Latvia, Uģis is the 133rd most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.

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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, “Uģis” — the 133rd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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