Paige
Paige was given to 884 girls in 2025, #346 among girls’ names; 148,069 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 144,000 Americans named Paige and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paige by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Paige mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Paige is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname, of American usage.” Its etymology gives the senses “servant” (pagius) and “boy, lad” (παιδίον) and “child” (παῖς).
Variant of Page, from page, from Old French page, possibly via Old Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of “boy from the rural regions”.
/peɪd͡ʒ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Paige?
#346 among girls’ names, 2025
Paige fell from #140 in 2015 to #346 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.3 to 0.55 per 1,000.
5,763 babies in 2003, the peak
Paige peaked in 2003, when 5,763 babies were given it (5,758 girls, #47 among girls’ names). The 884 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 884 | #346 | 0.55 |
| 2024 | 827 | #378 | 0.51 |
| 2023 | 863 | #354 | 0.54 |
| 2022 | 1,013 | #316 | 0.62 |
| 2021 | 1,064 | #300 | 0.65 |
| 2020 | 1,137 | #277 | 0.70 |
| 2019 | 1,376 | #226 | 0.82 |
| 2018 | 1,454 | #214 | 0.85 |
| 2017 | 1,700 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 2,056 | #149 | 1.2 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,293 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 2014 | 2,416 | #134 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 2,575 | #128 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 2,914 | #106 | 1.7 |
| 2011 | 2,819 | #107 | 1.6 |
| 2010 | 3,012 | #100 | 1.7 |
| 2009 | 3,413 | #98 | 1.9 |
| 2008 | 3,647 | #89 | 1.9 |
| 2007 | 3,796 | #89 | 2.0 |
| 2006 | 4,267 | #77 | 2.2 |
| 2005 | 4,906 | #60 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5,441 | #51 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5,758 | #47 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 5,470 | #51 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 4,274 | #71 | 2.4 |
| 2000 | 4,609 | #69 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 4,717 | #67 | 2.7 |
| 1998 | 4,976 | #63 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5,030 | #64 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5,342 | #65 | 3.0 |
| 1995 | 5,733 | #58 | 3.3 |
| 1994 | 5,208 | #63 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 5,612 | #60 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5,305 | #64 | 2.9 |
| 1991 | 4,516 | #76 | 2.4 |
| 1990 | 4,113 | #79 | 2.2 |
| 1989 | 2,392 | #124 | 1.3 |
| 1988 | 1,860 | #151 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 1,637 | #171 | 0.94 |
| 1986 | 878 | #281 | 0.51 |
| 1985 | 723 | #330 | 0.42 |
| 1984 | 607 | #376 | 0.36 |
| 1983 | 587 | #379 | 0.35 |
| 1982 | 587 | #393 | 0.35 |
| 1981 | 611 | #377 | 0.37 |
| 1980 | 474 | #454 | 0.29 |
| 1979 | 389 | #510 | 0.24 |
| 1978 | 365 | #513 | 0.24 |
| 1977 | 352 | #523 | 0.23 |
| 1976 | 384 | #480 | 0.26 |
| 1975 | 418 | #454 | 0.29 |
| 1974 | 475 | #415 | 0.32 |
| 1973 | 456 | #428 | 0.31 |
| 1972 | 483 | #408 | 0.32 |
| 1971 | 594 | #384 | 0.36 |
| 1970 | 761 | #343 | 0.44 |
| 1969 | 734 | #331 | 0.44 |
| 1968 | 695 | #331 | 0.42 |
| 1967 | 788 | #308 | 0.48 |
| 1966 | 788 | #317 | 0.47 |
| 1965 | 521 | #408 | 0.30 |
| 1964 | 537 | #422 | 0.28 |
| 1963 | 510 | #430 | 0.26 |
| 1962 | 548 | #418 | 0.28 |
| 1961 | 345 | #526 | 0.17 |
| 1960 | 188 | #745 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 132 | #912 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 130 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 98 | #1,053 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 114 | #944 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 105 | #974 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 95 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 87 | #1,036 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 107 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 78 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,427 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 44 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 52 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 66 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,132 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,733 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,824 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,693 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,238 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,937 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,227 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,051 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,668 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,180 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,059 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,220 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,419 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,618 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,093 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,792 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,216 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,597 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,281 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,897 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,293 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,077 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Paige a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paige has been given almost only to girls: 1,335 boys in 112 years of records.
Girls and boys named Paige: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paige, and how old are they?
144,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 148,069 Americans ever recorded as Paige. The median Paige alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 133,478 people named Paige (132,667 women and girls, 811 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 139,658 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 130 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,950 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 44,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 68,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19,500 |
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 Paige born?
The states with the most babies named Paige are California, New York and Texas, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 93 | #355 | 0.6× |
| New York | 64 | #265 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 54 | #593 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 51 | #220 | 1.4× |
| Massachusetts | 42 | #130 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 39 | #213 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 37 | #306 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 37 | #497 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 35 | #238 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 32 | #336 | 1.1× |
Where Paige is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Paige is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1914 it was given 1.6 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 girls’ 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 Paige 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 154,691 babies since 1880, Paige is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 884 of their 895 babies (99%), again the 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 Paige
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 Paige and names like it
- Compare Paige and PageBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPaige peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paige since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Paige: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Paige.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Paige alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.