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The SAGE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,691 3109 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 3,480 1752 0.007 70
Change since 1880 +7211 -1357 -0.003 -30
Other Countries
Australia 439 3617 0.003 27
United Kingdom 3,349 1858 0.007 73
Top States for SAGE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,073 2844 0.003 32
Michigan 860 1207 0.009 87
Florida 624 3214 0.004 39
New York 617 3041 0.003 33
Texas 515 4136 0.002 25
Top States for SAGE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 68 1125 0.011 108
Montana 90 1205 0.010 100
Iowa 263 1289 0.009 90
Wyoming 43 1374 0.009 87
Michigan 860 1207 0.009 87

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SAGE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SAGE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SAGE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SAGE by picking someone at random in Alaska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SAGE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SAGE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SAGE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SAGE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 349 3.26
White (Hispanic) 197 1.84
Mixed Race 169 1.58
Black/African American 168 1.57
Asian/Pacific 66 0.62
White (Caucasian) 9,742 91.12

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SAGE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SAGE in historical publications

SAGE. Probably a translation of Le Sage, still a very common French surname. It has reference to the wisdom and prudence of the original bearer. Wise, as an English surname, is a precise analogue. Le Sage. H.II.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SAGE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SAGE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SAGE

The following words are slight variants of SAGE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.