Meaning not yet researched.
Sage: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,853 in 2025. Its best rank was #142 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #142 in 2023; #160 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Sage in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#160 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #142.
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Sage: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,853 girls in 2025. Peak: #142 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 2,014 (2022).
In 2025, 1,853 US girls were named Sage, making it the 160th most common girls’ name of the year, down 14 places from #146 in 2024. That is 141 fewer than the 1,994 girls named Sage in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #142, reached in 2023. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,014, in 2022. For comparison, it was #369 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 684 US boys were named Sage, making it the 456th most common boys’ name of the year, down 42 places from #414 in 2024. That is 97 fewer than the 781 boys named Sage in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #387, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 828. For comparison, it was #647 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sage in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 5 babies. In all, 46,216 US babies have been given the name, 66% of them girls and 34% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 15,280 babies named Sage.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,074 US girls were named Sage; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 2,014. In 2025 that was about 1 in 867 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sage ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #41 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 7 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Saige (13,275 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sayge and Zage 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: Sayge (676), Zage (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 Sage in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 8 | #41 | #126 |
| Hawaii | 13 | #41 | #220 |
| Utah | 69 | #49 | #150 |
| Idaho | 27 | #66 | #142 |
| Maine | 13 | #81 | #119 |
| North Dakota | 11 | #87 | — |
| District of Columbia | 9 | #89 | #297 |
| Montana | 10 | #101 | #169 |
| Maryland | 40 | #111 | #390 |
| Delaware | 8 | #113 | — |
| Oregon | 28 | #124 | #224 |
| Nevada | 19 | #131 | #357 |
| Arizona | 48 | #133 | #565 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | #135 | — |
| West Virginia | 12 | #135 | — |
| Oklahoma | 28 | #137 | #462 |
| Florida | 116 | #153 | #356 |
| Washington | 47 | #153 | #251 |
| Kansas | 22 | #154 | #401 |
| Louisiana | 27 | #156 | #251 |
| New Mexico | 10 | #157 | #365 |
| South Dakota | 8 | #157 | — |
| California | 195 | #160 | #300 |
| Georgia | 63 | #161 | #306 |
| Pennsylvania | 70 | #161 | #270 |
| Colorado | 35 | #170 | #224 |
| Wisconsin | 32 | #171 | #476 |
| New Jersey | 48 | #173 | #772 |
| Indiana | 40 | #174 | #613 |
| Arkansas | 18 | #175 | — |
| South Carolina | 27 | #177 | #383 |
| Michigan | 49 | #181 | #397 |
| Ohio | 62 | #184 | #784 |
| Tennessee | 41 | #190 | #543 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #190 | #154 |
| Illinois | 54 | #190 | #759 |
| North Carolina | 57 | #191 | #514 |
| Missouri | 33 | #192 | #601 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #197 | #353 |
| Virginia | 41 | #203 | #388 |
| Texas | 166 | #206 | #528 |
| Minnesota | 27 | #210 | #304 |
| New York | 81 | #214 | #455 |
| Alabama | 22 | #218 | — |
| Iowa | 16 | #224 | — |
| Kentucky | 20 | #231 | #707 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #259 | #271 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #296 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,853 | #160 | 684 | #456 |
| 2024 | 1,994 | #146 | 781 | #414 |
| 2023 | 1,961 | #142 | 758 | #419 |
| 2022 | 2,014 | #143 | 828 | #387 |
| 2021 | 1,675 | #177 | 731 | #422 |
| 2020 | 1,319 | #223 | 682 | #436 |
| 2019 | 1,173 | #279 | 673 | #448 |
| 2018 | 1,095 | #305 | 693 | #439 |
| 2017 | 1,049 | #312 | 632 | #472 |
| 2016 | 941 | #353 | 528 | #549 |
| 2015 | 890 | #369 | 403 | #647 |
| 2014 | 844 | #387 | 408 | #646 |
| 2013 | 666 | #457 | 322 | #727 |
| 2012 | 624 | #492 | 326 | #720 |
| 2011 | 647 | #461 | 261 | #831 |
| 2010 | 642 | #471 | 264 | #813 |
| 2009 | 793 | #397 | 299 | #761 |
| 2008 | 692 | #457 | 300 | #750 |
| 2007 | 684 | #470 | 322 | #719 |
| 2006 | 767 | #415 | 330 | #685 |
| 2005 | 868 | #364 | 338 | #646 |
| 2004 | 881 | #358 | 310 | #661 |
| 2003 | 748 | #407 | 351 | #602 |
| 2002 | 683 | #427 | 380 | #575 |
| 2001 | 589 | #471 | 383 | #552 |
| 2000 | 557 | #489 | 392 | #543 |
| 1999 | 521 | #501 | 392 | #530 |
| 1998 | 393 | #612 | 360 | #551 |
| 1997 | 460 | #521 | 416 | #500 |
| 1996 | 337 | #661 | 311 | #581 |
| 1995 | 289 | #716 | 254 | #655 |
| 1994 | 254 | #799 | 202 | #740 |
| 1993 | 212 | #911 | 176 | #799 |
| 1992 | 187 | #1,009 | 193 | #745 |
| 1991 | 167 | #1,085 | 257 | #637 |
| 1990 | 115 | #1,380 | 104 | #1,041 |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,713 | 51 | #1,588 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,857 | 55 | #1,421 |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,896 | 30 | #2,049 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,665 | 40 | #1,640 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,309 | 46 | #1,476 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,561 | 26 | #2,088 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,640 | 28 | #1,948 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,046 | 39 | #1,587 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,400 | 33 | #1,758 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,692 | 35 | #1,689 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,176 | 31 | #1,826 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,885 | 57 | #1,183 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,920 | 34 | #1,637 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,246 | 44 | #1,344 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,346 | 32 | #1,623 |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,124 | 24 | #1,924 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,213 | 27 | #1,728 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,727 | 24 | #1,865 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,083 | 22 | #1,978 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,837 | 23 | #1,885 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,668 | 7 | #3,871 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,711 | 5 | #4,634 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,424 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,635 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,430 | — | — |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,872 |
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).