Gorge
Gorge is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 935th, in 1900.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 197562 births
- Best rank
- #935in 1900
- Since 1880
- 2,609people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,609 boys have been named Gorge in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 62 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 62 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1975, and the 1970s alone account for 18%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gorge | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 10 | |
| 1900s | 14 | |
| 1910s | 81 | |
| 1920s | 149 | |
| 1930s | 139 | |
| 1940s | 153 | |
| 1950s | 210 | |
| 1960s | 287 | |
| 1970s | 477 | |
| 1980s | 459 | |
| 1990s | 370 | |
| 2000s | 212 | |
| 2010s | 37 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1975, its biggest year
Gorge was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1975 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, James and David. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Gorge
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ramonpeak 1991
- Renepeak 1970
- Adrainpeak 1978
- Lamarpeak 1989
- Hipolitopeak 1974
- Erichpeak 1971
- Jacquespeak 1969
- Rubenpeak 1992
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.