Fuge

Locally spelled Füge in AT Austria.

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.

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Fuge is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English59%

  Clipping of refugium.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Hindi20%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Fuge in Hindi.

• German12%

  joint (of bricks/tiles)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Übername zu mnd. vuge/vüge: 'geschickt, klug'; Bearer count 274+78.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Fuge is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Irish, An Anglo-Saxon name, a variant of Fulger, found in Co. Waterford and east Cork. Fudge is a variant which is on record in Co. Tipperary in 1664

  as a name·The Surnames of Ireland

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

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Romanian, third-person singular present indicative of fugi

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Dingley Fugeb. 1874GBBritish botanist
• Jens Fugeb. 1963DEGerman author
• James FugeBritish watercolorist, active 1830, died 1838
• Edward Phillott FugeBritish Royal Navy officer, lieutenant in 1844

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Fuge come from?

joint (of bricks/tiles) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Fuge?

In German /ˈfuːɡə/ (Wiktionary).

What does the name Fuge mean?

In English, Clipping of refugium.

In which country does Fuge have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 387 people named Fuge, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fuge.

Where is Fuge most common?

Fuge is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 860 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Fuge?

In the United States, the national register counted 387 people named Fuge in 2010, about 1 in 860 thousand residents.