The PAGE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	80,493	354	0.03	298
United States (1880 census)	25,885	195	0.052	518
Change since 1880	+54608	-159	-0.022	-220
Other Countries
Australia	6,815	185	0.042	417
United Kingdom	29,594	166	0.064	644

Top States for PAGE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	5,767	544	0.017	170
Texas	5,586	431	0.027	268
Florida	4,676	381	0.029	293
North Carolina	4,627	211	0.057	575
New York	3,300	486	0.017	174
Top States for PAGE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	1,181	149	0.093	926
New Hampshire	923	120	0.075	747
Vermont	390	163	0.064	641
South Carolina	2,512	224	0.063	626
Mississippi	1,645	245	0.058	578

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

Classification and Origin of PAGE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	435	0.54
Asian/Pacific	386	0.48
White (Caucasian)	62,108	77.16
Black/African American	15,020	18.66
Mixed Race	1,151	1.43
White (Hispanic)	1,393	1.73

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

Meaning of PAGE in historical publications

Child, and Varlet, were names given to youths between seven and fourteen years of age while receiving their education for knighthood.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

PAGE. Properly a young male servant — a subordinate personal attendant of gi-eat men. It is curious that the Gr. Ilaic, the Lat. puer, the Fr. gar07i, and the Eng. buy, signify equally 'boy' or 'servant;' and 2)0(16, from whate'er source derived, has the same double meaning. According to Cotgrave, a iage is " a waiting or serving lioy (in France, where he hath often good breeding, he ought to be a gentleman borne); thence also a tayler's boy, a ship boy."

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 PAGE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAGE.

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.