Rege
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma latina declinada de rex, ‘do rei’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹidʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rege is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 5.6M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 14K
- UYUruguay1 in 35K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
382 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma latina declinada de rex, ‘do rei’
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rege 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.
382 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Rege 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 Malay, A type of music or dance that originated from the West Indies; reggae.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Interlingua, king (a male of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Yoruba, reggae (a music genre from Jamaica)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, singular past subjunctive of rijgen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, ablative singular of rēx
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)
- Johannes Regeb. 1900NONorwegian missionary (1900-1963)
- Hildur Beathe Regeb. 1900NONorwegian missionary
- Sushila Kapadiab. 1932INnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Håkon Regeb. 1955NONorwegian politician
- Mari Regeb. 1974NOEconomists
- Even Regeb. 1994NONorwegian cyclist
- Ashutosh G. RegeUSPh.D. University of California, Berkeley 1996
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 32 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 6
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Rege mean, and where does it come from?
- forma latina declinada de rex, ‘do rei’ Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Rege?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹidʒ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Rege have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 382 people named Rege, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rege most common?
- Rege is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rege?
- In Norway, the national register counted 382 people named Rege, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rege?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/regeThe 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, “Rege”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.