Lage
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from Danish Lage.
Source: Wiktionary, Swedish entry for Lage (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Popularity in Sweden
Among newborns, Lage has been fairly steady over the last few years. Its best year between 1998 and 2022 was 2022. The figures are for this exact spelling; other spellings of the name are counted on their own.
Years with fewer than two babies (fewer than ten before 2004) show as zero in the chart and as – in the table.
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| Year | Boys |
|---|---|
| 1998 | – |
| 1999 | – |
| 2000 | – |
| 2001 | – |
| 2002 | – |
| 2003 | – |
| 2004 | – |
| 2005 | – |
| 2006 | 3 |
| 2007 | 3 |
| 2008 | – |
| 2009 | 3 |
| 2010 | 4 |
| 2011 | 3 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 4 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 3 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2022 | 10 |
Everyone registered in Sweden on 31 December with this as the first name they use.
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| Year | Men and boys |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 863 |
| 2000 | 845 |
| 2001 | 827 |
| 2002 | 799 |
| 2003 | 780 |
| 2004 | 765 |
| 2005 | 753 |
| 2006 | 735 |
| 2007 | 723 |
| 2008 | 709 |
| 2009 | 692 |
| 2010 | 683 |
| 2011 | 671 |
| 2012 | 647 |
| 2013 | 636 |
| 2014 | 628 |
| 2015 | 617 |
| 2016 | 610 |
| 2017 | 603 |
| 2018 | 597 |
| 2019 | 582 |
| 2020 | 567 |
Lage in a sentence
- Hej! Jag heter Lage.Hi! My name is Lage.
- Lage har bott i Uppsala i tre år.Lage has lived in Uppsala for three years.
- Vet du om Lage kommer på festen på lördag?Do you know if Lage is coming to the party on Saturday?
- Lages mamma är lärare.Lage's mum is a teacher.
Swedish shows possession with a plain -s and no apostrophe: Lages mamma is Lage's mum.
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Questions about Lage
How do you pronounce Lage in Swedish?
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What does the name Lage mean?
Borrowed from Danish Lage.
How popular is Lage in Sweden?
10 babies were named Lage in 2022. In 2020, 567 people in Sweden had Lage as the first name they go by. Among newborns the name has been fairly steady lately and peaked in 2022 in the years SCB covers (1998–2022).
Popularity figures: Statistics Sweden (SCB), name statistics (BE0001) from the Statistical Database, released as open data under CC0. Each spelling is counted as its own name, as SCB does. SCB's open name statistics end with babies named in 2022 and the population on 31 December 2020; SCB stopped producing name statistics in 2024 and now points to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) for newer figures.
Origins, IPA and recordings: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), via kaikki.org; recordings from Lingua Libre on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA). Lingolib is not affiliated with SCB or Wiktionary. Sources last checked 7 October 2026.