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Gage

As a boy's name, Gage traces back to Old French, where it is understood to mean "Old French occupational surname". It has been climbing steadily, peaking most recently in the 2000s. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. 2003 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.

Old FrenchOld French occupational surname
Etymology"Pledge, measurer"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
12
1920s
23
1930s
10
1940s
11
1950s
30
1960s
29
1970s
178
1980s
497
1990s
13,274
2000s
27,515
2010s
15,323
Peaked in the 2000s · 56,902 total U.S. births since 1900