Tage
Masculine · “one who gives a pledge”
Tage is a Danish and Swedish name of real antiquity, and it means something specific and rather legal: the man who stands surety, the one who guarantees. It is very short and very Nordic.
How old is the name Tage?
Tage first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Tage alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 600 people named Tage are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tage most popular?
Tage peaked in 2007, reaching #3090 nationally. Today it ranks #3240, 150 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
Where it comes from
From taki to Tage
The story of Tage
Tage appears in Danish records from the medieval period and has been in continuous use in Denmark and southern Sweden ever since — it is one of a small set of native Nordic names that survived the long dominance of Christian ones. It was particularly common in Denmark in the first half of the twentieth century. American records show it in small numbers, chiefly in families with a Scandinavian connection.
Meaningscholars disagree
one who gives a pledge, a guarantor
The usual reading builds it on Old Danish taki, a guarantor or one who takes on an obligation. A second account connects it to a Norse word for a rooftop, and a third to the word for a day; the first is the most widely accepted and none is fully settled.
How the name formed
- taki
- Tage
Related forms: Tage · Tage · Take
Pronouncing Tage
TAH-guh
Two syllables in Danish, the second very light. Americans generally say TAYJ, as one syllable, which is a different name entirely in sound.
Nicknames for Tage
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 200737 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3090reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- +38.5%36 in 2025, from 26
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tage in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tage in Danish — same name
- Tage in Swedish — same name
- Take in Norwegian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York.
Tages among us
people named Tage are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was named Tage
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Day test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tage's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Day climbed just as high around 1932, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Day's path sketches the road Tage is walking now.
Tage sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Tage is headed
Tage looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 36% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Tage beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tage in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A genuinely old native Nordic name, not a Christian import or a modern coinage.
- Four letters, about as short as a name gets.
- The meaning is concrete and unusual — a role in a transaction rather than a quality.
- The Danish and American pronunciations are so different that they are effectively two names.
- In English it will be read as the word tag, and the childhood game will be mentioned.
- The meaning is contested, so the honest answer names more than one reading.
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Masculine · #3240 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Tages are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Tage are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tage in 2025?
- Tage ranks #3240 among US boy names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tage?
- About 1 in every 47,447 US boys born in 2025 was named Tage — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tage with classmates?
- Tage will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tage
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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