Åge
Åge ( Icelandic and old Danish spelling Aage ) is a Norwegian and Danish male given name .
Origin and meaning
Åge is a Danish and Norwegian form of Áki, the Old Norse diminutive of names with the component anu (ancestor, father). The Swedish form of the name is Åke , the Low German Oke or Ocke .
Name bearer
- Aage von Kauffmann (1852–1922), Danish architect
- Aage Bertelsen (1873–1945), Danish painter
- Aage Gerhardt Drachmann (1891–1980), Danish ancient historian and librarian
- Carl Aage Hilbert (1899–1953), Danish lawyer and governor of the Faroe Islands
- Aage Torgensen (1900-1932), Danish wrestler
- Karl-Aage Schwartzkopf (1920–2009), Swedish writer
- Karl Aage Præst (1922–2011), Danish football player
- Aage Niels Bohr (1922–2009), Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Thomas Aage Herz (1938–1995), Swedish sociologist
- Svend Åge Madsen (* 1939), Danish writer
- Tor Åge Bringsværd (* 1939), Norwegian writer
- Aage Haugland (1944-2000), Danish opera singer
- Åge Hadler (* 1944), Norwegian orienteer
- Aage A. Hansen-Löve (* 1947), Austrian Slavist
- Åge Hareide (* 1953), Norwegian football coach
- Rolf Åge Berg (* 1957), Norwegian ski jumper
- Jan Åge Fjørtoft (* 1967), Norwegian football player
- Jon Åge Tyldum (* 1968), Norwegian biathlete
- Aage Storm Borchgrevink (* 1969), Norwegian writer and literary critic
- Tom Aage Aarnes (* 1977), Norwegian ski jumper