Meaning not yet researched.
Gaige: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #782 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #782 in 2007; #9,181 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gaige in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,181 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #782.
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Gaige: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #782 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 279 (2007).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Gaige, making it the 9,181st most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,600 places from #6,581 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 13 boys named Gaige in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #782, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 279. For comparison, it was #1,310 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gaige in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 7 babies. In all, 4,544 US babies have been given the name, 2.8% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,171 babies named Gaige.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 411 US boys were named Gaige; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 123. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gage (61,055 babies since 1880) and Gauge (4,821 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Gaige in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,181 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,581 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,042 |
| 2022 | — | — | 27 | #4,024 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,409 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,602 |
| 2019 | — | — | 38 | #3,119 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,492 | 49 | #2,588 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,188 | 73 | #1,962 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,129 | 123 | #1,419 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,135 | 135 | #1,310 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,303 | 146 | #1,241 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,318 | 172 | #1,085 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,597 | 205 | #976 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,679 | 223 | #907 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,692 | 237 | #884 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,798 | 275 | #810 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,995 | 277 | #794 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,955 | 279 | #782 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,777 | 204 | #927 |
| 2005 | — | — | 195 | #909 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,983 | 165 | #1,001 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,728 | 204 | #849 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,182 | 172 | #932 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,178 | 163 | #949 |
| 2000 | — | — | 178 | #887 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,680 | 112 | #1,165 |
| 1998 | — | — | 109 | #1,152 |
| 1997 | — | — | 111 | #1,131 |
| 1996 | — | — | 91 | #1,228 |
| 1995 | — | — | 91 | #1,215 |
| 1994 | — | — | 63 | #1,501 |
| 1993 | — | — | 66 | #1,435 |
| 1992 | — | — | 55 | #1,605 |
| 1991 | — | — | 37 | #2,031 |
| 1990 | — | — | 34 | #2,137 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,454 |
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).