Lauge
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Danmarks Statistik, 2024
/lauxe/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Lauge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Danish (Old East Norse) Laghi, probably meaning "friend", as in the latter part of Old Norse félagi.
- DKDenmark1 in 98K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 276K
- ARArgentina1 in 347K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 98K (inferred from the name graph)
131 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Old Danish (Old East Norse) Laghi, probably meaning "friend", as in the latter part of Old Norse félagi.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lauge counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
131 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kaj Lauge Hansenb. 1923badminton player
- Rasmus Lauge Schmidtb. 1991DKDanish handball player (born 1991)
- Hans LaugeDanish association football manager
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3.9K | #153 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2023 | 323 | #17 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2024 | 286 | #21 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2022 | 257 | #26 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2019 | 256 | #26 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2020 | 253 | #27 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2021 | 243 | #32 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2018 | 216 | #32 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2017 | 191 | #42 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2015 | 187 | #42 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2016 | 183 | #43 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #27,582 |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lauge mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Danish (Old East Norse) Laghi, probably meaning "friend", as in the latter part of Old Norse félagi. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- What are other forms of the name Lauge?
- In the etymology graph, Lage is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lauge?
- In Spanish /lauxe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Lauge have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 131 people named Lauge, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lauge most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lauge is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 98 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lauge?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 131 people named Lauge, about 1 in 347 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lauge?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laugeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Lauge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.