Rage

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Rage is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• French23%

  rage (fury, anger)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English22%

  Violent uncontrolled anger.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Hindi13%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Rage in Hindi.

• Arabic12%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Rage in Arabic.

• Swahili7.9%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Rage in Swahili.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Rage is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Portugal

  Also written Rägë

• Swedish surname12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom

  Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

  Also written Raage, Råge, Ragê

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Ragé, Råge

52 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.

Rage 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 Finnish, irritable, prone to anger

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Romanian, to roar, howl, bellow

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Dutch, craze, fad, fashion

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In frm, rage; ire; fury

  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.

• Knut Rageb. 1952NONorwegian writer
• Stephanie Rageb. 1964USAmerican pornographic actress
• Stasija Rageb. 1991LVLatvian figure skater

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).

32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Rage mean, and where does it come from?

rage (fury, anger) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Rage?

It depends on the language: in French /ʁaʒ/ (Wiktionary); in Swahili /ɾaɠe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

How common is the name Rage?

In India, the national register counted 704 people named Rage, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Rage?

In India, the national register counted about 704 people named Rage, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rage. After it come France, Norway, United States and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Rage most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rage is densest in Norway — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.