The GAGE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,022	2077	0.006	59
United States (1880 census)	5,934	1038	0.012	119
Change since 1880	+10088	-1039	-0.006	-60
Other Countries
Australia	413	3806	0.003	25
United Kingdom	2,075	2867	0.005	45

Top States for GAGE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,193	1172	0.011	105
California	1,514	2128	0.004	45
New York	1,069	1746	0.006	56
Michigan	811	1377	0.008	82
Florida	710	2941	0.004	44
Top States for GAGE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	239	808	0.019	193
Alaska	117	659	0.019	187
Vermont	104	1043	0.017	171
Arkansas	410	876	0.015	153
Oklahoma	399	1209	0.012	116

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GAGE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GAGE 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 GAGE 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 GAGE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	304	1.9
Mixed Race	239	1.49
Native American/Alaskan	125	0.78
Asian/Pacific	82	0.51
White (Caucasian)	13,481	84.14
Black/African American	1,793	11.19

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

Similar names to GAGE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAGE.

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.