Måge

surname · Latin script

Meaning: seagull (Laridae)

Måge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 15K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 77K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 255K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Norway (measured from records)

366 people

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MaAgeLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Maage in US United States, 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)

seagull (Laridae)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Måge 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 Måge is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway3661 in 15K366Måge11
BR Brazil2711 in 781K271——
US United States1401 in 2.4M177MaAge5
AR Argentina821 in 555K82——
HR Croatia551 in 77K63——
CH Switzerland331 in 255K33——
DK Denmark151 in 391K15MaAge9

366 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • a separate surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, India, France, Norway

    Also written Mage, ̶m̶a̶g̶e̶

  • Portuguese surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Norway, Portugal

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Mage, Magé, Magê, M̶a̶g̶e̶, Mảgế

  • English name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil

    Also written Magé, Mage, Mâgë, Mäge

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Magé, Mäge, Mage

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Mage

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Måge
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—366#4,040
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—15#29,800

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Måge mean, and where does it come from?
seagull (Laridae) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Måge have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 366 people named Måge, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled måge.
Where is Måge most common?
Måge is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Måge?
In Norway, the national register counted 366 people named Måge, about 1 in 15 thousand 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, “Måge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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