Våge
surname · Latin script
Meaning: e-infinitive form of våga (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/²voːɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Våge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 186K
- SESweden≈1 in 376K
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
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,646 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 Vage 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)
e-infinitive form of våga (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Våge 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.
2,646 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
Våge is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, to dare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, opening in the ice, polynya
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)
- Arna Audhild Vågeb. 1914NONorwegian writer (1914-2000)
- Anemone Wille Vågeb. 1965NONorwegian designer
- Egil Vågeb. 1966NONorwegian local politician (born 1966)
- Robert Våge Skårdalb. 1995NONorwegian association football player
- Olliver VågeNONorwegian actor
- Thomas Vage- 1815
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) | — | 2.6K | #340 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #38,864 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 24 | #22,260 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #73,067 |
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
- What does the name Våge mean, and where does it come from?
- e-infinitive form of våga (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Våge?
- A machine transcription gives /²voːɡə/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Våge have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Våge, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled våge.
- Where is Våge most common?
- Våge is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Våge?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,646 people named Våge, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Våge compared with other names?
- In Norway, Våge is the 698th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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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%A5geThe 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, “Våge” — the 698th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.