Sagen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: definite masculine singular of sag (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/sɑɡn̩/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Sagen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 2,268 people, counted by SSB.
- NONorway1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 100K
- SESweden1 in 176K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
2,268 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Sagen
- Norwegian:/sɑɡn̩/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)definite masculine singular of sag
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sagen is found
(measured from records)Sagen 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 2,268 | 1 in 2.4K | 2.3K | Sagen | 25 |
| US United States | 462 | 1 in 720K | 497 | Sagen | 167 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 843K | 11 | Sagen | 28 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 852K | — | Sagen | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 578K | — | Sagen | 23 |
| SE Sweden | 58 | 1 in 176K | 58 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 21 | 1 in 279K | 21 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 100K | listed | — | — |
2,268 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sagen 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 German, to say, tell
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In dum, first/third-person plural past indicative/subjunctive of sien
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, to say (to pronounce; communicate verbally)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, definite singular of sag
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmh, to say
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)- Steinar Sagenb. 1975NONorwegian comedian and actor
- Tore Sagenb. 1980NONorwegian actor and comedian
- Anette Sagenb. 1985NONorwegian ski jumper
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sagen?
- In Norwegian /sɑɡn̩/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Sagen mean, and where does it come from?
- definite masculine singular of sag Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Sagen?
- In the etymology graph, Say is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sagen?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Sagen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sagen. After it come United States, United Kingdom, South Africa and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sagen most common?
- Sagen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sagen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,268 people named Sagen, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sagen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sagenThe 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, “Sagen” — ranked 402nd in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.