Saige
Saige was given to 640 girls in 2025, #480 among girls’ names; 13,275 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,200 Americans named Saige and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saige by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Saige mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Saige is “a female given name.”
Variant of Sage.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Saige?
#480 among girls’ names, 2025
Saige rose from #715 in 2015 to #480 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.22 to 0.40 per 1,000.
855 babies in 2022, the peak
Saige peaked in 2022, when 855 babies were given it (791 girls, #395 among girls’ names). The 699 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 640 | #480 | 0.40 |
| 2024 | 698 | #448 | 0.43 |
| 2023 | 713 | #434 | 0.44 |
| 2022 | 791 | #395 | 0.48 |
| 2021 | 621 | #503 | 0.38 |
| 2020 | 487 | #598 | 0.30 |
| 2019 | 446 | #657 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 451 | #654 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 476 | #624 | 0.28 |
| 2016 | 485 | #617 | 0.27 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 398 | #715 | 0.22 |
| 2014 | 481 | #605 | 0.27 |
| 2013 | 436 | #654 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 276 | #930 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 274 | #943 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 297 | #895 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 331 | #846 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 347 | #823 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 350 | #821 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 340 | #808 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 361 | #748 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 360 | #734 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 259 | #919 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 249 | #903 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 236 | #938 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 228 | #939 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 207 | #993 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 176 | #1,096 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 142 | #1,258 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 122 | #1,379 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,554 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,851 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,793 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,419 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,535 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,272 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,778 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,802 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,565 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,078 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saige a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,275 Americans recorded as Saige, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 640 girls and 59 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Saige: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saige, and how old are they?
13,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,275 Americans ever recorded as Saige. The median Saige alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 7,835 people named Saige (7,177 women and girls, 658 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,036 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 686 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,640 |
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 Saige born?
The states with the most babies named Saige are Texas, Georgia and Pennsylvania, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 51 | #623 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 45 | #263 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #320 | 1.5× |
| New York | 35 | #492 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 35 | #318 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 34 | #540 | 0.9× |
| California | 31 | #1,048 | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 28 | #151 | 2.2× |
| Ohio | 28 | #413 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 28 | #186 | 1.1× |
Where Saige is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Saige is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1984 it was given 2.2 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 Saige 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 60,345 babies since 1880, Saige is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 699 of their 3,290 babies (21%), again the second 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 Saige
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 Saige and names like it
- Compare Saige and SageBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSaige peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saige since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Saige.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Saige alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.