Gaige
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to boys 97.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 279 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,417since 1989
Gaige over time
Rank among boys' names. Gaige has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,469 | 13 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,002 | 27 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,995 | 27 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,362 | 23 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,570 | 30 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,103 | 38 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #2,579 | 49 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #1,958 | 73 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #1,419 | 123 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,307 | 135 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #1,240 | 146 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #1,085 | 172 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #975 | 205 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #906 | 223 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #883 | 237 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #809 | 275 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #791 | 277 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #781 | 279 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #926 | 204 |
| 2005 | — | #909 | 195 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,000 | 165 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #849 | 204 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #930 | 172 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #949 | 163 |
| 2000 | — | #885 | 178 | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #1,161 | 112 |
| 1998 | — | #1,146 | 109 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,130 | 111 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,226 | 91 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,213 | 91 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,495 | 63 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,431 | 66 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,598 | 55 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,019 | 37 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,128 | 34 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Gaige! It came in at #6,229, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Gaige is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Indiana#409 · 1 in 3,730
- Ohio#622 · 1 in 7,779
- Michigan#664 · 1 in 7,413
- Pennsylvania#704 · 1 in 9,428
- Texas#963 · 1 in 13,089
Best ever in a state: #193 in Maine, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #409 | 10 | 1 in 3,730 |
| Ohio | #622 | 9 | 1 in 7,779 |
| Michigan | #664 | 8 | 1 in 7,413 |
| Pennsylvania | #704 | 7 | 1 in 9,428 |
| Texas | #963 | 12 | 1 in 13,089 |
| Illinois | #1,138 | 5 | 1 in 15,929 |
| California | #2,084 | 5 | 1 in 49,117 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Gaige
- 2,441 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #8,910)
- 5,340 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #8,910)
- 7,603 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #8,910)
- Biggest jump: 276 spots in 2000 (#1,161 → #885)
- Biggest drop: 151 spots in 2004 (#849 → #1,000)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2007 at #781 (279 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2000–2012
- Highest: 1 in 7,213 boys born in 2009 were named Gaige (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #781 in 2007, was only 1 in 7,439 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 47.8% of all boys named Gaige (2,112) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 7 | #6,229 (1989) | #6,229 |
| 1990s | 769 | #1,130 (1997) | #1,455 |
| 2000s | 2,112 | #781 (2007) | #883 |
| 2010s | 1,401 | #883 (2010) | #1,546 |
| 2020s | 128 | #3,570 (2020) | #5,218 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Gaige in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 16,983 of them was named Gaige, which outranked 89.6% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).