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A name. A world of connections.
“poetry”
/²braːɡe/ · Norwegian Nynorsk
01 / Meaning & origin
Brage is a masculine given name documented in Finnish, Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Bragi. English Wikipedia gives the meaning “poetry”.
Meaning: “poetry”
From Old Norse Bragi, from bragr (“first, foremost”) or bragr (“poetry”).
02 / Across borders
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Official statistics
United States, 2016: 5 boys (rank 12185).
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1945–2025 Spelling: Brage
Recorded category boys
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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1946 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1947 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1948 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1949 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1950 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1951 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1952 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1953 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1954 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1955 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1956 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1957 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1958 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1959 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1960 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1961 | 4 | 454 | observed |
| 1962 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1963 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1964 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1965 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1966 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1967 | 4 | 518 | observed |
| 1968 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1969 | 4 | 547 | observed |
| 1970 | 5 | 517 | observed |
| 1971 | 6 | 496 | observed |
| 1972 | 5 | 537 | observed |
| 1973 | 4 | 573 | observed |
| 1974 | 7 | 480 | observed |
| 1975 | 5 | 547 | observed |
| 1976 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1977 | 4 | 578 | observed |
| 1978 | 7 | 468 | observed |
| 1979 | 4 | 603 | observed |
| 1980 | 5 | 558 | observed |
| 1981 | 5 | 575 | observed |
| 1982 | 9 | 427 | observed |
| 1983 | 7 | 486 | observed |
| 1984 | 12 | 358 | observed |
| 1985 | 6 | 525 | observed |
| 1986 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1987 | 11 | 374 | observed |
| 1988 | 11 | 390 | observed |
| 1989 | 12 | 368 | observed |
| 1990 | 16 | 299 | observed |
| 1991 | 19 | 270 | observed |
| 1992 | 25 | 240 | observed |
| 1993 | 34 | 182 | observed |
| 1994 | 37 | 170 | observed |
| 1995 | 44 | 153 | observed |
| 1996 | 65 | 114 | observed |
| 1997 | 67 | 107 | observed |
| 1998 | 73 | 95 | observed |
| 1999 | 87 | 86 | observed |
| 2000 | 89 | 89 | observed |
| 2001 | 85 | 80 | observed |
| 2002 | 106 | 69 | observed |
| 2003 | 126 | 63 | observed |
| 2004 | 131 | 64 | observed |
| 2005 | 115 | 70 | observed |
| 2006 | 126 | 68 | observed |
| 2007 | 130 | 63 | observed |
| 2008 | 142 | 64 | observed |
| 2009 | 119 | 80 | observed |
| 2010 | 133 | 70 | observed |
| 2011 | 135 | 68 | observed |
| 2012 | 130 | 67 | observed |
| 2013 | 132 | 63 | observed |
| 2014 | 144 | 56 | observed |
| 2015 | 129 | 66 | observed |
| 2016 | 121 | 64 | observed |
| 2017 | 110 | 70 | observed |
| 2018 | 91 | 86 | observed |
| 2019 | 115 | 61 | observed |
| 2020 | 110 | 54 | observed |
| 2021 | 88 | 74 | observed |
| 2022 | 128 | 49 | observed |
| 2023 | 157 | 45 | observed |
| 2024 | 145 | 46 | observed |
| 2025 | 161 | 43 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Brage” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
