Ae
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘handsome’. Medieval name; borne by the archbishop of Tuam who in 1539 represented Rory O’Conor
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ae is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 229K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.1M
- INIndia≈1 in 1.1M
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 Ae 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, 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 애 in KR South Korea.
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)
‘handsome’. Medieval name; borne by the archbishop of Tuam who in 1539 represented Rory O’Conor. Latinised as Catholicus, ‘universal’.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ae 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | — | 3 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Ae | 33 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 379K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 796 | Ae | 167 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 598K | — | Ae | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 329K | — | Ae | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 229K | 23 | Ae | 19 |
| BR Brazil | — | 40 | 1 in 5.3M | 40 | — | 1 |
| KR South Korea | #287 | 24as 애 | 1 in 2.2M | 24 | 애 | 107 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 451K | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the japanese-surnames-hadamitzky-1998 register. 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)
Ae 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, Initialism of American English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, a kind of leather, to mend shoes in HEE to mend shoes. ‘hn REE a travelling cobbler’s load. Fay aE Be leather for patching shoes
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, clear, pure, a fragment, a crumb, to powder, light, trifling, scanty, vexations, very mean or scanty
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, ivory fans, “your jaws are loose”, said to a money paid for license as a broker
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, they bowed and the empire was KPI governed. He Re X the mouth waters, to long for, (si- EE (HHL) to listen to politics behind the x curtain, He (24) X growing old, in declining years. TE X to drop a fishing line, to fish, to angle, (ng)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40 | #122,472 |
| JP Japan | Japanese, Chinese, Korean Surnames (Hadamitzky, 1998) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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
- Where does the name Ae come from?
- ‘handsome’. Medieval name; borne by the archbishop of Tuam who in 1539 represented Rory O’Conor. Latinised as Catholicus, ‘universal’. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What does the name Ae mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘handsome’. Medieval name; borne by the archbishop of Tuam who in 1539 represented Rory O’Conor.
- In which country does Ae have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Ae in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ae?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 40 people named Ae, about 1 in 5.3 million residents.
- How common is Ae compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Ae is the 287th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aeThe 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, “Ae” — the 287th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.