Meaning and history
Gage comes from an Old French-derived English surname meaning either "measure," for an assayer, or "pledge," for a moneylender. A character in Pet Sematary (1983) and its 1989 film adaptation popularized it as a given name.
20062006: 2,689 births, rank #154
2007: 2,741 births, rank #149
2008: 2,854 births, rank #146
2009: 2,886 births, rank #141
2010: 2,564 births, rank #152
20112011: 2,508 births, rank #154
2012: 2,274 births, rank #172
2013: 2,156 births, rank #188
2014: 1,945 births, rank #202
2015: 1,541 births, rank #242
20162016: 1,303 births, rank #279
2017: 1,049 births, rank #325
2018: 845 births, rank #381
2019: 753 births, rank #410
2020: 629 births, rank #475
20212021: 499 births, rank #565
2022: 430 births, rank #641
2023: 361 births, rank #731
2024: 303 births, rank #824
20252025: 235 births, rank #973
Gage moved from #824 to #973 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2003, with 2,939 births.