Sage

10,905 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sage in the 2020 census, making it the 3,228th most common in the country. That is about one person in 27,400.

By the numbers

People: 10,905
Rank: 3,228th
How common: 1 in 27,400
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

As an English and French surname, from sage, a nickname for a wise person. The given name, in general use since the 1990s, is also associated with the sage plant. Compare Desage, Lesage.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Sage

Halston Sage (born 1993)American actress
Bill Sage (born 1962)American actor
Kay Sage (1898–1963)American Surrealist artist and poet
Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724–1803)Genevan physicist, most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases
Angie Sage (born 1952)British author
Sinn Sage (born 1983)Pornographic film actress, director & model
Adriana Sage (born 1980)pornographic performer

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

Surnames like Sage

Also a first name

Sage has been given to 46,216 American babies as a first name since 1921, peaking in 2022. 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.