Gage

What Gage means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Gage yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 2,939 babies; 235 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Gage?

US: Falling: down from #242 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2003, when 2,939 boys got the name (#136 that year). First in the US records in 1914.

How common

• About 1 in 7,268 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MO (0.36 per 1,000 boys), IN (0.32 per 1,000 boys), OH (0.27 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Gage is #973 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Gage were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Gauge26 US
• Kage20 US
• Cage11 US
• Kaige8 US
• Gaige8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Gage

Boys

• Conner#864Variant of Connor, meaning “lover of hounds”^*
• Donovan#495“descendant of (a person named) brown & black”^*
• Drake#827“dragon”^*
• Chase#192Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2009, with 7,394 babies; 1,904 in 2025
• Keaton#769possibly “hedge, enclosure + farmstead, settlement”^*
• Skyler#783Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #360 in 2015, #783 in 2025

For a sister

• Macy#718Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 1,483 babies; 390 in 2025
• Kaylee#255Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #61 in 2015, #255 in 2025
• Mckenzie#576Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2000, with 2,528 babies; 517 in 2025
• Mackenzie#228“son, descendant + of Coinneach”^*
• Sydney#348Variant of Sidney, meaning “wide + island”^*
• Kayleigh#799Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #324 in 2015, #799 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Gage’s. Rank is US 2025.