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Sage

Rank in 2024
#413
Born in 2024
779
Peak year
2022 · #387
Origin
English
Also recorded for girls:1,987 in 2024 (#145)

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 779 boys were named Sage, about 1 in every 2,202.
  • It peaked in 2022 with 825 babies, ranked #387.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1921.
  • 15,068 boys have been named Sage since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Sage per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 365 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,845 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,424 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 7,429 babies, 0.34 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

As an English and French surname, from sage, a nickname for a wise person. The given name, in general use since the 1990s, is also associated with the sage plant. Compare Desage, Lesage. As an Irish surname, variant of Savage. As a German surname, from a placename derived from the noun sege (“sedge”) (see sedge).

  • A male given name from English.
  • A female given name from English.
Origin
English
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Sage, CC BY-SA 4.0.