# Gage (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/gage/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname originating as an occupation.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 16,614 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,187 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 18,583 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.7% (16,022 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

An occupational surname from Middle English gage, guage (“measure”) for an assayer, or gage (“pledge”) for a moneylender.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Gage in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 82% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 12% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Gage in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Gage

- Phineas Gage, 19th century American railway worker who survived a large brain trauma
- Matilda Joslyn Gage, American writer, Native American civil rights activist, abolitionist, freethinker
- Lukas Gage, American actor and writer
- Kevin Gage, American actor
- Lyman J. Gage, American financier and 42nd Secretary of the Treasury (1836–1927)
- Frances Dana Barker Gage, American writer (1808-1884)
- Fred Gage, American geneticist
- Nick Gage, American professional wrestler
- Sir Thomas Gage, 7th Baronet, British botanist (1781-1820)
- Patricia Gage, British actress and voice actress (1940-2010)
- Andrew Thomas Gage, British botanist (1871-1945)

## Similar surnames

Gause, Goss, Gooch, Gough, Guess, Gass, Giese, Gasca, Gish, Ghosh, Geis, Guice.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.