Sayge
Sayge is given to both girls and boys: 31 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,533 among girls’ names and #11,761 among boys’, #6,935 among all names counting both); 676 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sayge by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sayge?
#4,533 among girls’ names, 2025
Sayge rose from #7,554 in 2015 to #4,533 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 19.3 per million.
48 babies in 2022, the peak
Sayge peaked in 2022, when 48 babies were given it (40 girls, #3,816 among girls’ names). The 37 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 77% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,533 | 6 | #11,761 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,368 | 8 | #9,716 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,976 | 8 | #9,595 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,816 | 8 | #9,682 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,214 | 13 | #6,606 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,896 | 8 | #9,410 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,348 | 7 | #10,619 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,059 | 5 | #13,757 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,708 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,582 | 11 | #7,517 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,554 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,249 | 8 | #9,472 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,121 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,617 | 13 | #6,575 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,518 | 7 | #10,573 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,860 | 8 | #9,519 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,680 | 6 | #12,222 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,022 | 6 | #12,296 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,025 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,801 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,202 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,706 | 6 | #11,110 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,509 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,751 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,857 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,084 | 5 | #11,817 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,090 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,925 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,891 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,347 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Sayge a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 676 Americans recorded as Sayge, 80% are girls and 20% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sayge: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sayge, and how old are they?
An estimated 670 Americans named Sayge and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 456 people named Sayge (346 women and girls, 110 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 457 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
How common is the spelling Sayge?
Sayge is a less common spelling of Saige: SSA has recorded 676 Sayge and 13,275 Saige since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 60,345 babies since 1880, Sayge is the third most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 3,290 babies (1.1%), 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 Sayge
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 Sayge and names like it
- Compare Sayge and SaigeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSayge peaked in 2022.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sayge since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Sayge.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sayge alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.