Paige
Paige is a girl's name that peaked in 2003, when it was the 47th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 346th. About 144,000 Paiges are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Paige
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Paige crossed from boys to girls in 1939, and has stayed there for 87 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 90 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 148,069
- Estimated living today
- 144,000
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 2003
- Best rank
- 47th
- Rank in 2025
- 346th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 146,734 / 1,335
How old the living Paiges are
born that year still alive today
Of the 148,069 babies given the name since 1914, about 144,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 35,000 of them are children and 1,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Variant of Page, from page, from Old French page, possibly via roa-oit paggio, from Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (“boy, lad”), from παῖς (“child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Paiges
- Paige (born 1992)British professional wrestler and actress
- Paige Turco (born 1965)American actress
- Paige O'Hara (born 1956)American actress
- Paige Bueckers (born 2001)American basketball player
- Paige VanZant (born 1994)American mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and television personality
- Paige McPherson (born 1990)American taekwondo practitioner
- Paige Madden (born 1998)American swimmer
- Paige Spara (born 1989)actress
People named Paige with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Paige is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Paige is most concentrated in Utah (2.0×), New Hampshire (1.8×), Idaho (1.7×), Nevada (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2003
The most popular girls’ names the year Paige peaked:
Paige elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Paige | 24,785 | 28th |
| New Zealand girls | Paige | 3,858 | 14th |
| Scotland girls | Paige | 2,413 | 43rd |
| Ireland girls | Paige | 995 | 85th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Paige | 587 | 53rd |
| France girls | Paige | 150 | 3,558th |
| Belgium girls | Paige | 11 | 1,261st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Paige among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Paige | 9 | 22 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Paige against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.