Gage
15,562 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gage in the 2020 census, making it the 2,285th most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,200.
By the numbers
- People
- 15,562
- Rank
- 2,285th
- How common
- 1 in 19,200
- Per 100,000
- 5.2
Where the name comes from
Origin an occupational name
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.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Gage described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Gage
- Phineas Gage (1823–1860)19th century American railway worker who survived a large brain trauma
- Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898)American abolitionist, writer
- Thomas Gage (1719–1787)British general
- Lukas Gage (born 1995)American actor and writer
- Kevin Gage (born 1959)American actor
- Ryan Gage (born 1983)English actor
- Lyman J. Gage (1836–1927)American financier and 42nd Secretary of the Treasury
- Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808–1884)American writer
People named Gage with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Gage
Also a first name
Gage has been given to 61,055 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2003. 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.