Gauge
- #4,050 for boys in 2025, 26 births
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 327 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,821since 1990
Gauge over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Gauge has never cracked the top 700 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,050 | 26 |
| 2024 | #3,693 | 30 |
| 2023 | #2,362 | 58 |
| 2022 | #2,753 | 47 |
| 2021 | #2,000 | 74 |
| 2020 | #1,743 | 88 |
| 2019 | #1,698 | 93 |
| 2018 | #1,443 | 121 |
| 2017 | #1,110 | 174 |
| 2016 | #967 | 213 |
| 2015 | #880 | 253 |
| 2014 | #812 | 280 |
| 2013 | #731 | 319 |
| 2012 | #743 | 311 |
| 2011 | #759 | 298 |
| 2010 | #756 | 297 |
| 2009 | #722 | 327 |
| 2008 | #733 | 312 |
| 2007 | #987 | 198 |
| 2006 | #880 | 224 |
| 2005 | #964 | 181 |
| 2004 | #1,013 | 162 |
| 2003 | #1,149 | 131 |
| 2002 | #1,098 | 133 |
| 2001 | #1,287 | 102 |
| 2000 | #1,629 | 72 |
| 1999 | #1,692 | 62 |
| 1998 | #1,849 | 53 |
| 1997 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #2,115 | 40 |
| 1995 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1994 | #3,109 | 22 |
| 1993 | #2,865 | 24 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
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First appearance
1990
The first year at least five boys were named Gauge! It came in at #6,415, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Gauge is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Gauge in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 2,307 spots since 2020 (#1,743 → #4,050)
- Biggest jump: 254 spots in 2008
- Biggest drop: 143 spots in 2017
Rise & fade · boys
19 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2009 at #722 (327 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2005–2016
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,930
- Highest: 1 in 5,930 boys born in 2013 were named Gauge (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 65,695 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #722 in 2009, was only 1 in 6,066 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 48.9% of all boys named Gauge (2,359) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 297 | #1,692 (1999) | #3,161 |
| 2000s | 1,842 | #722 (2009) | #1,046 |
| 2010s | 2,359 | #731 (2013) | #990 |
| 2020s | 323 | #1,743 (2020) | #2,767 |
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.
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