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Paige

Girls' name · Millennial-era

Living in the US
~144,800 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#346 among girls
Births in 2025
884 148,069 since 1880
Typical age
25 years, median

Paige popularity over time

Paige rank by birth year, 1915–2025Paige ranked #2,900 in 1915 and #346 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #47, in 2003.#100#1,000#346best #47 in 2003192019401960198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1915–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2003: 5,763 births recorded as Paige. The name does not appear in the data until 1914. It has held a top-100 place in 21 separate years.

As of 2025 the name sits at #346, with 884 births that year. Over ten years the count has fallen 61%. Year on year the rank improved by 32.

Babies named Paige per yearPeaks at 5,763 births in 2003.5,763 in 20030192019401960198020002020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Paige?

About 144,800 people named Paige are alive in the United States today. That is out of 148,069 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Paige?

Half of living Paiges are older than 25, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 1990s. By the site’s era rules that makes Paige a millennial-era name.

Your Paige

Ages of living people named PaigeHalf of living Paiges are older than 25 and half younger.median 25020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Paige is most common

The name is concentrated in Montana, at 2.8× the national rate. Alaska, Connecticut and New Hampshire follow.

Where Paige is used more than average5 states use the name Paige more than the national average.Alaska: 2.7× the national rateAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: 2.3× the national rateNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: 2.2× the national rateIDMontana: 2.8× the national rateMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: 2.4× the national rateCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Paige is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Montana 62 2.8×
Alaska 44 2.7×
Connecticut 221 2.4×
New Hampshire 65 2.3×
Idaho 114 2.2×

Is Paige a boy's or a girl's name?

99% girls1% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Across the whole record, 99.1% of births under the name were girls. The name has changed sides: it began mostly on one sex and ends mostly on the other.

Paige in England and Wales

ONS recorded 68 births named Paige in 2025, ranking it #580. That is 74% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Paige comes from

Variant of Page, from page]], from Old French page, possibly via paggio, from Late 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 summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Paige

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Paige Turco American actress 1965 27
Paige O'Hara American actress 1956 23
Paige Bueckers American basketball player 2001 20
Paige VanZant American mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and television personality 1994 17
Paige Madden American swimmer 1998 16
Paige McPherson American taekwondo practitioner 1990 16
Paige Spara actress 1989 15
Paige Hauschild American water polo player 1999 13
Photo credits (5)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 892 in 1986 to 1,662 in 1987 — 1.9 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Paige

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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