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Gorge

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Gorge has been given to 2,609 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1975, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Gorge, 2020

1 in 557,000

Gorge over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gorge: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gorge means

Gorge is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gorge is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,609 boys were recorded with the name Gorge between 1880 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 62 in 1975; its best national rank was #934 in 1900.

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 Gorge?

Gorge had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gorge 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gorge. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gorges were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gorge was born before 1975 — so the typical Gorge is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,058
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (477).

Is Gorge 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (62)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#934
1900

Spellings of Gorge

Gorge is not the most common spelling — George is, with 86.6% against Gorge's 0.15%.

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 Gorge is used

Across 1910–2025, Gorge was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 44,020 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —

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. Gorge has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gorge around the world

Where Gorge 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.

  • France
    1968–1978
    #1,741
    in 1978
  • South Australia
    1955–1955
    #392
    in 1955

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gorge by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#934
1900
Peak year
1975
62 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
2,609
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gorge

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

SergeGordenGordanGormanGordieGordyGorGoranGorjeGordonJeorgeJorgeGoroGoergeGoreeVirgeBergeVergeGorhamGorkemForgeGeorgeGorgonio

Names with a curve like Gorge

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

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Sibling names for Gorge

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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