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Brage

Boys' name

First, foremost

Brage has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2000, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Brage, 2016

1 in 734,000

Brage 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brage: meaning, origin, and history

First, foremost

Old Norse

What Brage means

Brage means “first, foremost”, associated with bragr.

Origin, language, and formation

Brage is used in Norwegian Nynorsk. Its origins include Old Norse.

Brage comes through Old Norse Bragi.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Nynorsk, Brage is pronounced /²braːʝe/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Brage between 2000 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2000; its best national rank was #10,549 in 2000.

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 Brage?

Brage had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brage 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brage. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brages were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brage was born before 2000 — so the typical Brage is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Brage 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (5)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,549
2000

Spellings of Brage

Brage is not the most common spelling — Bruce is, with 34.6% against Brage'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.

Brage around the world

Where Brage 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
    1880–2025
    #43
    in 2025

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

Brage 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
#10,549
2000
Peak year
2000
5 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brage

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

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Sibling names for Brage

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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