Våg
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Norwegian: a narrow inlet (smaller than a fjord), a voe (Shetland and Orkney dialect)
/ʋog/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Våg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- 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)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
246 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vag in IN India.
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)
wave
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Våg is read(measured from records)
Våg is one spelling over 4 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.
- Finnish20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Våg in Finnish.
- Norwegian7.7%
a narrow inlet (smaller than a fjord), a voe (Shetland and Orkney dialect)
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Bokmålkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
a narrow inlet (smaller than a fjord)
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Danish6.3%
wave
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Våg in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Våg 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)
Våg is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a wave; a shape with alternatingly curves; a motion of liquid or energy
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)
- Sigrid Jervell Vågb. 1992NONorwegian athletics competitor
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 246 | #6,338 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 119 | #11,234 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 48 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 26 | #20,976 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #65,818 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Våg come from?
- wave Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Våg?
- A machine transcription gives /ʋog/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- What does the name Våg mean?
- In Norwegian, a narrow inlet (smaller than a fjord), a voe (Shetland and Orkney dialect)
- In which country does Våg have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 246 people named Våg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled våg.
- Where is Våg most common?
- Våg is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Våg?
- In Norway, the national register counted 246 people named Våg, 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/v%C3%A5gThe 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, “Våg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.