Sage — #146 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sage

The Social Security Administration has registered 28,585 babies named Sage between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sage currently holds the #146 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 2,013 babies received it in a single year. Sage is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 15,068 additional births since 1921.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sage performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 8,950 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sage shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,598 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Sage in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sage 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 28,585 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.