Meaning not yet researched.
Gage: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 235 in 2025. Its best rank was #136 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #136 in 2003; #973 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gage in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#973 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #136.
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Gage: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 235 boys in 2025. Peak: #136 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 2,939 (2003).
In 2025, 235 US boys were named Gage, making it the 973rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 149 places from #824 in 2024. That is 68 fewer than the 303 boys named Gage in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #136, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,939. For comparison, it was #242 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gage in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 61,055 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 27,530 babies named Gage.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,407 US boys were named Gage; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,303. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,268 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gage ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #573 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Promise (6,838 babies since 1880), Gauge (4,821 babies since 1880) and Gaige (4,544 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gaege and Gayge are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gaege (66), Gayge (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gage in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 10 | #573 | #156 |
| Indiana | 10 | #642 | #162 |
| Ohio | 14 | #657 | #163 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #722 | #239 |
| Utah | 5 | #738 | #217 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #744 | #166 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #808 | #186 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #837 | #226 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #849 | #237 |
| Michigan | 8 | #863 | #171 |
| Arizona | 6 | #874 | #227 |
| Texas | 29 | #884 | #272 |
| Virginia | 7 | #909 | #311 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #964 | #229 |
| California | 21 | #1,021 | #349 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,140 | #326 |
| New York | 10 | #1,155 | #400 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,217 | #328 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,358 | #279 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 235 | #973 |
| 2024 | — | — | 303 | #824 |
| 2023 | — | — | 361 | #731 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,138 | 430 | #641 |
| 2021 | — | — | 499 | #565 |
| 2020 | — | — | 629 | #475 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,385 | 753 | #410 |
| 2018 | — | — | 845 | #381 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,001 | 1,049 | #326 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,147 | 1,303 | #279 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,541 | #242 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,239 | 1,945 | #202 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,652 | 2,156 | #188 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,613 | 2,274 | #172 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,469 | 2,508 | #154 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,691 | 2,564 | #152 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,209 | 2,886 | #141 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,312 | 2,854 | #146 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,149 | 2,741 | #149 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,858 | 2,689 | #154 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,252 | 2,702 | #151 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,967 | 2,756 | #145 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,263 | 2,939 | #136 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,460 | 2,746 | #140 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,890 | 2,759 | #144 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,736 | 2,348 | #166 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,384 | 1,955 | #178 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,546 | 1,998 | #169 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,113 | 1,702 | #193 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,245 | 1,541 | #202 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,694 | 1,499 | #203 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,946 | 1,286 | #229 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,301 | 991 | #283 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,787 | 757 | #335 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,003 | 809 | #319 |
| 1990 | — | — | 667 | #360 |
| 1989 | — | — | 171 | #755 |
| 1988 | — | — | 57 | #1,380 |
| 1987 | — | — | 52 | #1,408 |
| 1986 | — | — | 52 | #1,370 |
| 1985 | — | — | 63 | #1,185 |
| 1984 | — | — | 42 | #1,491 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,706 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,630 |
| 1981 | — | — | 17 | #2,709 |
| 1980 | — | — | 15 | #3,000 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,410 |
| 1978 | — | — | 23 | #2,094 |
| 1977 | — | — | 21 | #2,230 |
| 1976 | — | — | 29 | #1,761 |
| 1975 | — | — | 20 | #2,239 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,945 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,072 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,138 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,593 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,620 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,108 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,856 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,075 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #2,968 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,203 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,184 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,057 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,265 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,170 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,463 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,761 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,722 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,733 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,465 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,598 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,468 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,353 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,300 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,447 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).