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Gaige

#9,177 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Gaige has been given to 4,544 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #9,177 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 279 recorded.

Babies named Gaige, 2025

1 in 414,000

Gaige over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gaige: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gaige means

Gaige is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gaige is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,417 boys were recorded with the name Gaige between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 279 in 2007; its best national rank was #782 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,599 in 2020 to #9,177 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,310 in 2015 to #9,177 in 2025.

In the United States, 127 girls were recorded with the name Gaige between 1999 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2003; its best national rank was #10,673 in 1999.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gaige?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,177
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gaige sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaige. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gaiges were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaige was born before 2007 — so the typical Gaige is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,417
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (2,112).

Is Gaige 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
−2,601
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,578
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,867
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.06×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.9%
Peak was 2007 (279)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#782
2007

Spellings of Gaige

Gaige is not the most common spelling — Jaime is, with 31.6% against Gaige's 2.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gaige is used

Across 2016–2025, Gaige was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 86,601 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 50,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 50,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 50,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Gaige around the world

Where Gaige 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1992–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1994–2000
    #379
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gaige by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,177
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,578
Best rank ever
#782
2007
Peak year
2007
279 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,417
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,673
1999
Peak year
2003
9 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
127
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gaige

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

GainesGaiusSaigeGailKaigePaigeLigeEligeGaitherGaithGailenTaigeCaigeCraigeTigeGainsTeigeGaijeEldrigeBigeGaidenGailonGailardGaile

Names with a curve like Gaige

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gaige, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EthenGavynIsaakJayvonJakubJavenCamrenTreyvonRyleyAdityaPranavTrystan

Sibling names for Gaige

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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