Böge
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first/third-person singular subjunctive II of biegen
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbøːɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Böge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 607K
- NONorway1 in 4.5K
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 Böge 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Boge in US United States, NO Norway, KE Kenya and Bøge in DK Denmark.
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)
first/third-person singular subjunctive II of biegen
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Böge 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.
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kurt Bögeb. 1926DEGerman politician (1926-2009)
- Kuno Bögeb. 1926DEGerman football manager
- Werner Bögeb. 1929DEPh.D. Universität Hamburg 1964
- Reimer Bögeb. 1951DEGerman politician and Member of the European Parliament
- Christian Bögeb. 1967DEGerman director
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 5 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Böge mean, and where does it come from?
- first/third-person singular subjunctive II of biegen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Böge?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbøːɡə/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Böge have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Böge in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled böge.
- Where is Böge most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Böge is densest in Norway — about 1 in 4.5 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Böge?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,218 people named Böge, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Böge compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Böge is the 918th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Böge?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B6geThe 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, “Böge” — the 918th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.