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
Rank among boys' names. Gauge 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 | 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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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 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#232 · 1 in 834
- West Virginia#263 · 1 in 1,158
- Iowa#415 · 1 in 1,972
- Oregon#497 · 1 in 2,621
- Missouri#499 · 1 in 2,942
Best ever in a state: #220 in Montana, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #232 | 10 | 1 in 834 |
| West Virginia | #263 | 7 | 1 in 1,158 |
| Iowa | #415 | 8 | 1 in 1,972 |
| Oregon | #497 | 7 | 1 in 2,621 |
| Missouri | #499 | 11 | 1 in 2,942 |
| Indiana | #536 | 11 | 1 in 3,286 |
| Kansas | #565 | 5 | 1 in 3,162 |
| South Carolina | #573 | 6 | 1 in 3,576 |
| Ohio | #610 | 14 | 1 in 4,306 |
| Oklahoma | #623 | 6 | 1 in 3,441 |
| Georgia | #639 | 13 | 1 in 4,232 |
| Michigan | #642 | 11 | 1 in 4,442 |
| Arizona | #665 | 8 | 1 in 4,698 |
| Alabama | #686 | 5 | 1 in 4,621 |
| Louisiana | #703 | 6 | 1 in 4,201 |
| Wisconsin | #727 | 5 | 1 in 5,480 |
| Minnesota | #746 | 5 | 1 in 5,603 |
| Colorado | #770 | 5 | 1 in 5,459 |
| Texas | #781 | 29 | 1 in 6,433 |
| North Carolina | #798 | 8 | 1 in 6,463 |
| Tennessee | #802 | 6 | 1 in 6,046 |
| Pennsylvania | #865 | 8 | 1 in 7,597 |
| Washington | #932 | 5 | 1 in 7,261 |
| Illinois | #983 | 8 | 1 in 8,301 |
| Florida | #1,008 | 11 | 1 in 8,728 |
| California | #1,155 | 17 | 1 in 13,605 |
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See more about Gauge
- 357 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #4,050)
- 2,307 spots since 2020 (#1,743 → #4,050)
- 3,170 spots since 2015 (#880 → #4,050)
- Biggest jump: 254 spots in 2008 (#987 → #733)
- Biggest drop: 143 spots in 2017 (#967 → #1,110)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2009 at #722 (327 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2005–2016
- 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
- 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.
Gauge in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 6,860 of them was named Gauge, which outranked 94.2% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).