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Aage

Boys' name

Ancestor, through Áki

Aage has been given to 7 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Aage, 1915

1 in 262,000

Aage over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aage: meaning, origin, and history

Ancestor, through Áki

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aage means

Aage belongs to the name family reached through Aage → Áki. Its meaning is “ancestor”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aage is used in Danish, Icelandic and Norwegian.

Aage comes through Old Norse Áki.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Åke and Áki.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Aage between 1915 and 1915. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1915; its best national rank was #3,081 in 1915.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aage?

Aage had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1915, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1915
1 in 262,000
7 of 1,832,372 births
Among boys only
1 in 121,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1915
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
181,445 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aage sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1915 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 181,445 children born in 1915 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aage. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aages were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aage was born before 1915 — so the typical Aage is around 110 today.

Median birth year
1915
About 110 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
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1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Aage rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (7)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,081
1915

Spellings of Aage

Aage is not the most common spelling — Dale is, with 19.5% against Aage's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Aage around the world

Where Aage ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–2003
    #517
    in 2003

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Aage by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,081
1915
Peak year
1915
7 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1915
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aage

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Aage

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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