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Gae

Girls' name

Variant of Gay

Gae has been given to 652 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1946, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Gae, 1968

1 in 483,000

Gae over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gae: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Gay

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gae means

Gae is a variant of Gay.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gae is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡeɪ/ for Gae.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gae → Gay. The family’s meaning is “gay, happy”, recorded in the naming reference for Gay.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gay.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 652 girls were recorded with the name Gae between 1913 and 1968. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1946; its best national rank was #1,690 in 1946.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Gae?

Gae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1968, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1968
1 in 483,000
7 of 3,378,301 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1968
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
334,524 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gae sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1968 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 334,524 children born in 1968 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gae was born before 1948 — so the typical Gae is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
288
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1940s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (191).

Is Gae rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1946 (28)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,690
1946

Where Gae is used

Across 1910–2025, Gae was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 936,807 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Utah1 in —
  5. 5Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gae around the world

Where Gae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1944–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gae by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,690
1946
Peak year
1946
28 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1968
All-time count
652
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gae

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Gae

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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