Gae — girls' name

What the Data Says About Gae

The Social Security Administration has registered 652 babies named Gae between 1913 and 1968, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gae currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1968. The name reached its historical peak in 1946, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gae performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 191 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Gae shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Gae in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gae in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 652 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.