# Paige (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/paige/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | “servant”, “boy”, “lad”, “child”, “countryside”, “boy from the rural regions” |
| Pronunciation | /peɪd͡ʒ/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Page |
| US babies named this | 148,069 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,335 / 146,734 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 24,785, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Variant of Page, from page, from Old French page, possibly via Old Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,819 | 107 |
| 2012 | 2,914 | 106 |
| 2013 | 2,575 | 128 |
| 2014 | 2,416 | 134 |
| 2015 | 2,293 | 140 |
| 2016 | 2,056 | 149 |
| 2017 | 1,700 | 179 |
| 2018 | 1,454 | 214 |
| 2019 | 1,376 | 226 |
| 2020 | 1,137 | 277 |
| 2021 | 1,064 | 300 |
| 2022 | 1,013 | 316 |
| 2023 | 863 | 354 |
| 2024 | 827 | 378 |
| 2025 | 884 | 346 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 8 | 6,946 |
| 1997 | 8 | 7,099 |
| 1998 | 18 | 3,966 |
| 1999 | 11 | 5,944 |
| 2000 | 17 | 4,520 |
| 2001 | 10 | 6,797 |
| 2002 | 13 | 5,645 |
| 2003 | 5 | 12,255 |
| 2004 | 26 | 3,610 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12,843 |
| 2006 | 12 | 6,793 |
| 2007 | 10 | 8,016 |
| 2008 | 14 | 6,318 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,519 |
| 2017 | 5 | 13,737 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 811 | 70 |
| 2012 | 715 | 80 |
| 2013 | 572 | 98 |
| 2014 | 537 | 104 |
| 2015 | 531 | 108 |
| 2016 | 505 | 111 |
| 2017 | 387 | 139 |
| 2018 | 321 | 167 |
| 2019 | 241 | 206 |
| 2020 | 261 | 189 |
| 2021 | 252 | 202 |
| 2022 | 148 | 302 |
| 2023 | 142 | 306 |
| 2024 | 112 | 388 |
| 2025 | 68 | 580 |

## People named Paige

- Paige Turco, American actress
- Paige O'Hara, American actress
- Paige Bueckers, American basketball player (born 2001)
- Paige VanZant, American mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and television personality
- Paige Madden, American swimmer
- Paige McPherson, American taekwondo practitioner
- Paige Spara, actress
- Paige Hauschild, American water polo player
- Paige Hurd, American actress
- Paige Spiranac, American golfer and model
- Paige Greco, Australian Paralympic cyclist (1997–2025)
- Paige Howard, American actress

## 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.