# Gorge (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gorge/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,609 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,609 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 34 | 2,760 |
| 2002 | 31 | 2,967 |
| 2003 | 21 | 4,027 |
| 2004 | 21 | 4,170 |
| 2005 | 12 | 6,361 |
| 2006 | 11 | 7,094 |
| 2007 | 21 | 4,545 |
| 2008 | 12 | 6,894 |
| 2009 | 12 | 6,952 |
| 2010 | 9 | 8,355 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,315 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9,157 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,188 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,136 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,073 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.