Gage
Gage reached its high-water mark in 2003 at number 136, and has been recorded 61,055 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 973rd. About 60,000 Gages are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Gage boys named Gage
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 61,055
- Estimated living today
- 60,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2003
- Best rank
- 136th
- Rank in 2025
- 973rd
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 246 / 60,809
How old the living Gages are
born that year still alive today
Of the 61,055 babies given the name since 1914, about 60,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 25,000 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
An occupational surname from Middle English gage, guage (“measure”) for an assayer, or gage (“pledge”) for a moneylender.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Gages
- Gage Golightly (born 1993)American actress
People named Gage with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gage is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gage is most concentrated in Utah (3.2×), Nevada (3.1×), Idaho (2.6×), Alaska (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2003
The most popular boys’ names the year Gage peaked:
Gage elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Gage | 354 | 538th |
| Scotland boys | Gage | 3 | 370th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.