Waage
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Waage is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from waage 'scales'; also occupational/house name.
- USUnited States1 in 444K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.7K
- ISIceland≈1 in 32K
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
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
3,280 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from waage 'scales'; also occupational/house name
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Waage 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 | 3,280 | 1 in 1.7K | 3.3K | Waage | 26 |
| US United States | 749 | 1 in 444K | 749 | Waage | 151 |
| DE Germany | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 202K | listed | — | — |
| EG Egypt | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Waage | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 752K | 15 | Waage | 23 |
| DK Denmark | 67 | 1 in 88K | 67 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 63 | 1 in 162K | 63 | Waage | 4 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Waage | 1 |
| IS Iceland | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 1 | — | — |
3,280 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the deutsche-namenkunde-gottschald-1982 register. 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)
Waage 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 German, scales (weighing machine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Wage, Waag, van der Wagen. Wull- wag(e) ("Woll waage"), Wagschal. — Wager, Wäger, Weger,.Wieger = Wagmeister (städt. Be- amter; vgl. Messer, Stahl 3), Waget |mach,er, maker
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Peter Waageb. 1833NONorwegian chemist (1833-1900)
- Hjalmar Waageb. 1892NONorwegian newspaper editor and writer (1892–1939)
- Fritz Waageb. 1898ATAustrian architect (1898–1968)
- Herman Waageb. 1916NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Anders Waageb. 1948NONorwegian physician and professor
- Kit Eichler Waageb. 1953Danish actress
- Trond Waageb. 1953NONorwegian child's rights expert
- Hilde Waageb. 1959NONorwegian historian
- Anita Waageb. 1971NONorwegian soccer player
- Odin Waageb. 1995NONorwegian actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Waage mean, and where does it come from?
- from waage 'scales'; also occupational/house name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Waage?
- In the etymology graph, Wage is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Waage have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Waage, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waage.
- Where is Waage most common?
- Waage is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Waage?
- In Norway, the national register counted 3,280 people named Waage, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
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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, “Waage”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.