How Many People Are Named Gage?
people named Gage are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 5,698 people in the US has this name
Based on 61,055 babies named Gage in Social Security records from 1914 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,950 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From an English surname of Old French origin meaning either "measure", originally denoting one who was an assayer, or "pledge", referring to a moneylender. It was popularized as a given name by a character from the book 'Pet Sematary' (1983) and the subsequent movie adaptation (1989).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Gage (99.6%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Gage alive today is about 19 years old, and 89% are under 30. Half of them were between 14 and 25 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Gage first appears in the records in 1914 and was given most often in 2003, to 2,950 babies. In 2025, 235 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1914 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Gage has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #136, in 2003. In 2025 it ranked #973.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #973 |
| Best rank | #136 (2003) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #147 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Gage alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Gage were born in Texas than in any other state: about 4,440 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Gage was given 2.9 times as often in Wyoming, 2.8 times in Maine and 2.7 times in North Dakota.
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