Cage

5,018 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cage in the 2020 census, making it the 6,501st most common in the country. That is about one person in 59,600.

By the numbers

People: 5,018
Rank: 6,501st
How common: 1 in 59,600
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cage described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 58.3%
White, not Hispanic 31.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Cage

Nicolas Cage (born 1964)American actor
John Cage (1912–1992)American avant-garde composer
Michael Cage (born 1962)American basketball player
Cage (born 1973)American rapper

People named Cage with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cage

Cagle

Also a first name

Cage has been given to 1,008 American babies as a first name since 1992, peaking in 2012. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.