Gage
Gage is ranked 831st among boys in 2024 (297 births). Its best rank was 136th, in 2003.
- Rank in 2024
- #831down 99 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2970.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 20032,939 births
- Best rank
- #136in 2003
- Since 1914
- 60,555people given the name
The story in the numbers
60,555 boys have been named Gage in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 2,939 births — 0.15% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 202 → 831).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 45%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gage | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 12 | |
| 1920s | 23 | |
| 1930s | 10 | |
| 1940s | 11 | |
| 1950s | 30 | |
| 1960s | 29 | |
| 1970s | 177 | |
| 1980s | 498 | |
| 1990s | 13,204 | |
| 2000s | 27,420 | |
| 2010s | 16,930 | |
| 2020s | 2,211 |
In 2003, its biggest year
Gage was the 136th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2003 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Andrew. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Gage
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Connerpeak 2005
- Ryleypeak 2007
- Dylenpeak 2004
- Trentinpeak 2006
- Eathanpeak 2006
- Treshawnpeak 2007
- Kevionpeak 2008
- Quinlanpeak 2006
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.