Ager
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ager is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In the Central African Republic it is the 10th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: One who or that which ages something.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 80K◐
- USUnited States1 in 226K
- CFCentral African Republic1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.0K ●
- Sources
- 203 ●
- 1 in 22K ◐
across 12 countries
17K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aeger in GH Ghana.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
One who or that which ages something.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,908 | 2.4K rec. | — | listed | Ager | 105 |
| US United States | — | 1,469 | 11K rec. | 1 in 226K | 1.5K | Ager | 203 |
| AU Australia | — | 774 | 738 rec. | — | — | Ager | 67 |
| CA Canada | — | 427 | 421 rec. | — | — | Ager | 37 |
| AT Austria | — | 281 | 149 rec. | — | — | Ager | 40 |
| DK Denmark | — | 267△ | 99 rec. | 1 in 22K | 267 | Ager | 38 |
| DE Germany | — | 249 | 234 rec. | — | — | Ager | 44 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 163 | 226 rec. | — | — | Ager | 16 |
| PH Philippines | — | 125 | 117 rec. | — | — | Ager | 9 |
| IN India | — | 123 | 28 rec. | — | 32 | Ager | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 91 | 57 rec. | 1 in 550K | 563 | — | 16 |
| GH Ghana | — | 89 | 106 rec. | — | — | Aeger | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English15K55%
- Hindi3K11%
- 2.4K9%
- Swahili1.9K7%
- Danish9523%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 15,208 | 55% |
| Hindi | 2,967 | 11% |
| 2,383 | 9% | |
| Swahili | 1,907 | 7% |
| Danish | 952 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ager is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Milton, American songwriter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Sundanese, well-known seaweed from which a jelly is made, gelatine
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Romanian, quick, swift.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, field, acre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmq-scy, a field
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
- Pedro Agerreb. 1556ESnot in their usual nameBasque priest and writer
- Nikolaus Agerb. 1568FRFrench botanist (1568-1634)
- Waldemar Agerb. 1869NOAmerican newspaper publisher
- Milton Agerb. 1893USAmerican composer (1893–1979)
- Shana Alexanderb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist (1925–2005)
- Klaus Agerb. 1946ATAustrian composer
- Nikita Agerb. 1969USAmerican singer and actress
- Rob Agerb. 1973British internet film critic
- Deborah Agerb. 1976USAmerican poet
- Maurice Agerb. 1984USAmerican basketball player (born 1984)
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●
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 42 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ager?
- We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Ager (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ager have the most bearers?
- Ager is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled ager.
- How common is Ager compared with other names?
- In the Central African Republic, Ager is the 10th most common surname of 992 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Ager mean?
- Recorded meaning: One who or that which ages something.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Ager” — the 10th most common surname in Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.