Gae
Gae was last recorded in 1968, when 7 babies were given it; 652 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gae?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,826, in 1968; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1946, the peak
Gae peaked in 1946, when 28 girls were given it, #1,690 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 7 | #5,826 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,396 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,612 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,460 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,945 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,654 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,652 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,098 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,561 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,312 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 11 | #3,804 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,074 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,560 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,658 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,201 | 12.4 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,625 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,903 | 15.1 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,029 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,951 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,547 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,872 | 15.3 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,383 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,690 | 17.8 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,810 | 16.8 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,131 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,283 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,245 | 11.8 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,298 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,917 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,236 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,010 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,488 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,079 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,800 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,804 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,543 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,900 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,622 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,804 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,840 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,984 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,487 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,134 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,624 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,788 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,467 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,797 | 6.5 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,996 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,495 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,863 | 6.5 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,971 | 9.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gae, and how old are they?
An estimated 366 Americans named Gae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 67 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 463 people named Gae (432 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 432 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 28,698 babies since 1880, Gae is the fourth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 157 babies recorded by SSA was a Gae (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Gae
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 Gae and names like it
- Compare Gae and GayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sGae peaked in 1946.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gae since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Gae.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gae alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.