Paige

At the 2020 census, 19,531 Americans bore the surname Paige — 1,796th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,300.

By the numbers

People: 19,531
Rank: 1,796th
How common: 1 in 15,300
Per 100,000: 6.5

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Variant of Page, from page, from Old French page, possibly via roa-oit paggio, from Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (“boy, lad”), from παῖς (“child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 51.3%
White, not Hispanic 38.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Paige

Elaine Paige (born 1948)English singer, stage actress and radio presenter
Paige (born 1992)British professional wrestler and actress
Janis Paige (1922–2024)American actress
Jennifer Paige (born 1973)American singer
Peter Paige (born 1969)American actor and director
Satchel Paige (1906–1982)American baseball player and coach
Taylour Paige (born 1990)American actress and dancer
Yasmin Paige (born 1991)British actress

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

Surnames like Paige

Also a first name

Paige has been given to 148,069 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.