Brage

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Bragé in FR France.

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●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Brage is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name2.5K records spelled Brage7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Germany

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Bragé

• a separate given name240 records spelled Brage2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway

  Also written Bråge

• a separate given name198 records spelled Brage2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway

  Also written Bragé

• Hindi given name44 records spelled Brage3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway

  Also written Bragé

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Brage is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, alternative form of brace (“ember”)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 57 years between 1961–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Brage Bei der Wiedenb. 1963DEGerman historian and archivist
• Brage Sandmoenb. 1967NONorwegian football referee
• Brage Baklienb. 1978NONorwegian politician
• Brage Aronsenb. 1984NONorwegian photographer
• Brage Aulstadb. 1998NONorwegian cyclist
• Brage Berg Pedersenb. 1999NONorwegian association football player
• Brage Skaretb. 2002NONorwegian football player
• Brage Naustdalb. 2002NONorwegian association football player (born 2002)
• Brage Storstein AndresenDKresearcher
• Brage Rugstad Knudsenresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 215 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Brage?

We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Brage (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Brage have the most bearers?

We estimate about 3.8 thousand people bear Brage in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled brage.

Where is Brage most common?

Brage is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.

Is Brage a male or female name?

Brage is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Brage mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse