How popular is “Sage” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sage” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sage” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sage” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sage” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sage” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sage” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sage” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1921	5	0.000002142		5	-100%
1963	5	0.000001263	5		100%
1964	6	0.000001543	6		100%
1966	10	0.000002877	10		100%
1968	15	0.00000444	10	5	33%
1969	18	0.000005179	11	7	22%
1970	39	0.000010814	16	23	-18%
1971	37	0.00001078	15	22	-19%
1972	50	0.000015908	26	24	4%
1973	48	0.00001591	21	27	-13%
1974	63	0.000020724	39	24	24%
1975	67	0.00002219	35	32	4%
1976	82	0.000027024	38	44	-7%
1977	86	0.000027074	52	34	21%
1978	110	0.000034658	53	57	-4%
1979	77	0.000023144	46	31	19%
1980	70	0.000020322	35	35	0%
1981	74	0.000021391	41	33	11%
1982	90	0.000025656	51	39	13%
1983	62	0.000017902	34	28	10%
1984	63	0.000018058	37	26	17%
1985	90	0.000025216	44	46	-2%
1986	77	0.000021647	37	40	-4%
1987	91	0.000025238	61	30	34%
1988	122	0.000033017	67	55	10%
1989	131	0.000034075	80	51	22%
1990	219	0.000055408	115	104	5%
1991	424	0.00010885	167	257	-21%
1992	380	0.000098926	187	193	-2%
1993	388	0.00010291	212	176	9%
1994	456	0.000122658	254	202	11%
1995	543	0.000148273	289	254	6%
1996	648	0.000177671	337	311	4%
1997	876	0.000241605	460	416	5%
1998	753	0.000204719	393	360	4%
1999	913	0.000247166	521	392	14%
2000	949	0.000251065	557	392	17%
2001	972	0.000259658	589	383	21%
2002	1063	0.000284355	683	380	29%
2003	1099	0.000289034	748	351	36%
2004	1191	0.000311705	881	310	48%
2005	1206	0.000313667	868	338	44%
2006	1097	0.000277287	767	330	40%
2007	1006	0.000251646	684	322	36%
2008	992	0.000252375	692	300	40%
2009	1092	0.000285851	793	299	45%
2010	906	0.000245147	642	264	42%
2011	908	0.000248237	647	261	43%
2012	950	0.00025975	624	326	31%
2013	988	0.000271007	666	322	35%
2014	1252	0.000337796	844	408	35%
2015	1292	0.000349103	889	403	38%
2016	1468	0.000400142	940	528	28%
2017	1681	0.000470053	1049	632	25%
2018	1788	0.000508547	1095	693	22%
2019	1843	0.000530981	1172	671	27%
2020	1999	0.0005984	1318	681	32%
2021	2404	0.000709574	1674	730	39%
2022	2838	0.000838867	2013	825	42%
2023	2715	0.000819945	1958	757	44%
2024	2766	0.000831005	1987	779	44%

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