Gaige
Gaige was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,177 among boys’ names; 4,544 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,470 Americans named Gaige and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gaige by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gaige mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gaige is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gaige?
#9,177 among boys’ names, 2025
Gaige fell from #1,310 in 2015 to #9,177 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 70.4 to 4.7 per million.
288 babies in 2007, the peak
Gaige peaked in 2007, when 288 babies were given it (279 boys, #782 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,177 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,576 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,039 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,021 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,405 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,599 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,116 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 49 | #2,587 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 73 | #1,962 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 123 | #1,419 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 135 | #1,310 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 146 | #1,241 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 172 | #1,085 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 205 | #976 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 223 | #907 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 237 | #884 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 275 | #810 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 277 | #794 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 279 | #782 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 204 | #927 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 195 | #909 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 165 | #1,000 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 204 | #848 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 172 | #931 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 163 | #948 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 178 | #885 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 112 | #1,163 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,149 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,128 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,226 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,210 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 63 | #1,496 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 66 | #1,430 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,600 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 37 | #2,025 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 34 | #2,132 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,447 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gaige a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,544 Americans recorded as Gaige, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Gaige: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gaige, and how old are they?
4,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,544 Americans ever recorded as Gaige. The median Gaige alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,774 people named Gaige (134 women and girls, 3,640 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,373 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 428 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 898 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Gaige born?
The states with the most babies named Gaige are Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 302 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 273 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 261 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 185 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 172 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Florida | 170 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 162 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 144 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 129 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 121 | not ranked | 1.6× |
Where Gaige is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gaige is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1989 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gaige with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 70,486 babies since 1880, Gaige is the third most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 269 babies (3.0%), again the third 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 Gaige
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 Gaige and names like it
- Compare Gaige and GageBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGaige peaked in 2007.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gaige since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Gaige.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gaige alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.