Alge

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/əldʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Alge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 24K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 87K

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.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈520 people, est.

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Austria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alge 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 Alge is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈520 est.≈1 in 197K—Alge1
AT Austria≈370 est.≈1 in 24K—Alge36
US United States2121 in 1.6M212Alge119
CH Switzerland971 in 87K97Alge12
DE Germany≈74 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Alge29
SE Sweden411 in 249K41Alge5
BZ Belize≈3 est.≈1 in 115K—Alge1

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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Alge is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Algé, Algė, Algè

  • French surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Algeria

    Also written Algé, Ālgē, Algè, Ălgé, Algė

  • Arabic surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Syria, Romania, Morocco

    Also written Algé, Algè, Àlgé, Álgë, Ålĝe

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Algė

  • Lithuanian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania

    Also written Algė, Ālgé, Ãlgē

31 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Alge is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of algeō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, partitive plural of alg

    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)

1940196019802000Dieter Alge, b. 1940Eva Alge, b. 1943Björn Alge, b. 1943Dietmar Alge, b. 1959Chris Lord-Alge, b. 1963Ingmar Alge, b. 1971Daniela Alge, b. 1975Barbara Alge, b. 1981

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)

FormalDear Mr Alge,
InformalHi Alge,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Alge
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010212#87,663
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020198#98,131
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000188#91,004
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202497#11,365
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—41#14,660
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

How do you pronounce Alge?
A machine transcription gives /əldʒ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Alge have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 516 people named Alge in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alge.
How common is the name Alge?
In the United States, the national register counted 212 people named Alge in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.

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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, “Alge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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