Enge
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from enge Stelle ‘narrow place’ or a field name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɛndʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Enge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 136K
- CZCzechia1 in 268K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,272 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from enge Stelle ‘narrow place’ or a field name
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Enge 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.
1,272 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Enge is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fro, alternative form of angle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite plural of eng
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In umb, corn stalk
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In Latvian, upe Igaunijā, Pērnavas un Raplas apriņķī, Velizes kreisā krasta pieteka
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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(measured from records)
- Erik Engeb. 1852NONorwegian politician (1852–1933)
- Cornelius Engeb. 1866NONorwegian politician
- Ludvig Engeb. 1878NONorwegian politician
- Adolf Engeb. 1885ATAustrian politician (1885-1952)
- Jonas Engeb. 1908NONorwegian labour politician
- Franz Engeb. 1913ATAustrian politician (1913-1989)
- Per K. Engeb. 1953NOAmerican engineer
- James Engeb. 1960USAmerican writer
- Tomáš Engeb. 1976CZCzech racing driver
- Erik Engeb. 1996SEFinnish-Swedish actor
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Enge mean, and where does it come from?
- from enge Stelle ‘narrow place’ or a field name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Enge?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛndʒ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Enge have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Enge, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled enge.
- Where is Enge most common?
- Enge is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Enge?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,272 people named Enge, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Enge?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/engeThe 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, “Enge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.