Åge

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Modern Danish form of Aki (see Áki) ^{[1] [2]}

2) Swedish pet form of August (see Augustus) ^[2]

3) Younger form of Aghi ^[3]

Related Names

Oge	♂
Åge	♂
Aage	♂

Combinations

Name Element	Example
SVEIN	see Svenåge

Name Day

Norway

8 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1890 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[4]		0	0	2714	4427
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	258	n.a
Sweden[6]		0	0	63	207
Finland[7]		n.a.	5	n.a	13
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [4] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Evan Bogan: Navnebogen (2005)
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi