Age

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Swedish variant form of Aghi [1]

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

3) Swedish pet form of Agathon [2]

Related Names

Age
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Finish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Agessön Old Swedish
Agessøn Old Swedish

Female

Agesdotther Old Swedish
Ages dotther Old Swedish

Grammar

Old Swedish - Old Swedish
Nominative: Age
Dative: Age
Genitive: Aga/Ages
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Age
Genitive: Agen
Partitive: Agea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Age
Genitive: Ages
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Age
Genitive: Ages

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 137 people were named Age (percentage of first or only given name: 31 %) [3]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
26 94 6 10 20 84
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
87
n.a.
44
n.a.
43
Greenland Greenland[6]
0 39
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
4
n.a.
0
n.a.
4
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[8]
2
n.a.
2
n.a.
0
n.a.
  #: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Age.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk