Paige

Where Paige comes from

Variant of Page, from page, from Old French page, possibly via Old Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".
— Wiktionary's entry for Paige
  • From a surname
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #2,900 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1956
    Paige O'Hara born
    American actress
  4. 1965
    Paige Turco born
    American actress
  5. 2003
    Peak, #47
    5,758 babies named Paige — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #107.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of American usage.
Namesakes
  • Paige Turco · American actress, born 1965
  • Paige O'Hara · American actress, born 1956
  • Paige Bueckers · American basketball player, born 2001
  • Paige VanZant · American mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and television personality, born 1994
  • Paige McPherson · American taekwondo practitioner, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.