girls:
246 births since 1991
#5470 (4th percentile)
boys:
60.2k births since 1914
#438 (90th percentile)
overall:
60.5k births since 1914
#957 (88th percentile)
The name Gage is the #957 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 60,485 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 87.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #438 (90.5% percentile) for all time with 60,239 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,470 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 246 births since 1991.
Gage first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1991 for girls). Birth data for Gage is available in 73 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (73 years for boys and 28 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gage has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gage reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 84.6% percentile (ranked #140) with 1,361 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 1,399 births per million (ranked 83.6% percentile). Despite a low point around 2008, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Gage ranks #582 for boys (36.2% percentile) with 196 births per million, which is 14.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gage reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #928) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gage".
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