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 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#357 · 1 in 1,734
- Indiana#425 · 1 in 2,981
- Ohio#426 · 1 in 3,509
- Louisiana#596 · 1 in 3,640
- Pennsylvania#695 · 1 in 7,047
Best ever in a state: #193 in Maine, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Idaho | #357 | 5 | 1 in 1,734 |
| Indiana | #425 | 13 | 1 in 2,981 |
| Ohio | #426 | 19 | 1 in 3,509 |
| Louisiana | #596 | 7 | 1 in 3,640 |
| Pennsylvania | #695 | 9 | 1 in 7,047 |
| Missouri | #699 | 5 | 1 in 6,786 |
| Michigan | #740 | 8 | 1 in 7,015 |
| North Carolina | #928 | 5 | 1 in 10,192 |
| Texas | #1,074 | 13 | 1 in 13,780 |
| Georgia | #1,117 | 5 | 1 in 11,665 |
| Illinois | #1,117 | 6 | 1 in 13,056 |
| New York | #1,310 | 7 | 1 in 15,679 |
| Florida | #1,453 | 5 | 1 in 19,123 |
| California | #2,049 | 6 | 1 in 42,021 |
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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 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 367,250 of them was named Gaige, which outranked 14.5% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,736 names at #16,099; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 12,030 of them was named Gaige, which outranked 92.4% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #995Fisher166
- #995Menachem166
- #995Rahul166
- #1,000Gaige165
- #1,000Fidel165
- #1,000Hezekiah165
- #1,000Jagger165
- #1,007Bronson164
- #1,007Campbell164
- #1,007Jamil164
Tied with 6 names at #1,000; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.