Cage
Cage was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,269 among boys’ names; 1,008 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cage by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cage?
#7,269 among boys’ names, 2025
Cage fell from #3,701 in 2015 to #7,269 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 6.4 per million.
60 babies in 2012, the peak
Cage peaked in 2012, when 60 boys were given it, #2,184 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,269 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,422 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,975 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,541 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,141 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,558 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,241 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,105 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,343 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,067 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,701 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,800 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,006 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,184 | 31.6 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,380 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,738 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,407 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 54 | #2,376 | 26.5 |
| 2007 | 38 | #3,029 | 18.3 |
| 2006 | 48 | #2,515 | 23.4 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,904 | 18.0 |
| 2004 | 47 | #2,379 | 23.7 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,273 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,376 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 30 | #2,992 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,380 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,799 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,714 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,268 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,637 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,543 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,440 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,396 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,704 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cage a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cage has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cage: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cage, and how old are they?
An estimated 994 Americans named Cage and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 969 people named Cage (13 women and girls, 956 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 916 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,389 babies since 1880, Cage is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 39 babies (28%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cage
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cage and names like it
- Compare Cage and KageBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Cage.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cage alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.