Saige
Masculine · “wise one”
Saige is given to both — 1,156 boys and 12,119 girls since 1880. See Saige as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Saige respells Sage, and the herb and the wise man are the same Latin word — salvus, healthy, and sapere, to taste or know.
How old is the name Saige?
Saige first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Saige alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,100 people named Saige are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Saige most popular?
Saige peaked in 2000, reaching #2015 nationally. Today it ranks #2332, 317 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From salvus to Saige
The story of Saige
Salvia is named for health because it was a medicine, and the medieval tag ran 'why should a man die who has sage in his garden'. The adjective sage comes from a different Latin verb meaning to taste and to know. Saige is a modern American respelling used for both sexes and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
wise one; the herb
Two Latin routes that English spells alike. The herb sage is from salvia, from salvus, 'healthy' — it was a medicinal plant. The adjective sage is from sapere, 'to be wise' or 'to taste'. Both are genuine and the modern name draws on either. The -aige spelling is modern.
How the name formed
- salvus
- salvia
- sage
- Saige
Related forms: Sage · Sayge
Pronouncing Saige
SAYJ
One syllable. Saige and Sage are homophones; only the spelling differs.
Nicknames for Saige
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most boys named
- 202368 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2015reached in 2000
- Change vs 2024
- −4.8%59 in 2025, from 62
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Saige in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sage in English — spelling variant
- Sayge in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Saiges among us
people named Saige are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 28,950 born in 2025 was named Saige
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Saige
- #2332
- Saige on the 2025 chart
- #863
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Saige went to 59 boys in 2025, but Sayge is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 65, which makes it the 863rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,469 places above the chart.
- Saige59
- Sayge6
About 1 boy in 26,278 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 28,950 for Saige itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Enrigue test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Saige's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Enrigue climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Enrigue's path sketches the road Saige is walking now.
Saige sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Saige is headed
Saige looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 20% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Saige beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Saige in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the herb is named for health and the sage for tasting is a first-rate pair of etymologies.
- One syllable, clean, and never mispronounced.
- Both meanings are appealing.
- Sage is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- It is used for both sexes in America.
- The respelling will be corrected by other people constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Saiges are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Saige are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Saige?
- Saige is the most-used spelling in US records — 59 of the 65 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Sayge.
- How popular is the name Saige in 2025?
- Saige ranks #2332 among US boy names in 2025, with 59 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Saige?
- About 1 in every 28,950 US boys born in 2025 was named Saige — 59 in all.
- Will my child share the name Saige with classmates?
- Saige will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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