Vag
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Vag is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a lever, crowbar, bar.
- NONorway1 in 22K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 47K
- SESweden1 in 392K
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)
- Record sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
246 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Våg in NO Norway.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a lever, crowbar, bar
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vag 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.
246 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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)Vag is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
ISO 639-3 language code for Vagla.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Vagina (or, by extension, vulva).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, emptiness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In liv, furrow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, a lever, crowbar, bar
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Romanian, VAG, -Ă, vagi, adj. 1. (Adesea adverbial) Lipsit de limpezime, de claritate, de precizie; neclar, nelămurit, nesigur, confuz (pentru vedere, auz sau minte). ♦ (Substantivat, n.) Ceea ce este vag (1). 2. (Anat.; în sintagma) Nerv vag (și substantivat, m.) = unul dintre cei doisprezece nervi cranieni, important pentru funcționarea aparatului respirator, circulator și digestiv.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 57 | #8,193 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 29 | #62,737 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 26 | #1,420 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #146,285 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #33,051 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vag mean, and where does it come from?
- a lever, crowbar, bar Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Vag have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 246 people named Vag, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled våg.
- Where is Vag most common?
- Vag is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vag?
- In Norway, the national register counted 246 people named Vag, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vagThe 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, “Vag”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.