Given name & surname
Brage
“first, foremost”
Brage is a masculine given name from Old Norse, meaning “first, foremost.” It is used in Norwegian Nynorsk.
Original Old NorseBragi
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brage through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 164 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Brage’s family of names
In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Brage continues an earlier form in BRAGI.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Brage
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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