# Sage (surname)

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

A surname transferred from the nickname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 11,207 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,222 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 27,549 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.8% (10,691 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English and French surname, from sage, a nickname for a wise person. The given name, in general use since the 1990s, is also associated with the sage plant. Compare Desage, Lesage. * As an Irish surname, variant of Savage. * As a German surname, from a placename derived from the noun sege (“sedge”) (see sedge).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sage 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) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 3.2% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sage in the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Sage

- Halston Sage, American actress
- Bill Sage, American actor
- Kay Sage, American Surrealist artist and poet (1898–1963)
- Angie Sage, British author
- Russell Sage, American financier and congressman for New York (1816–1906)
- Greg Sage, American musician

## Similar surnames

Saez, Sasse, Saxe, Sayegh, Sosa, Souza, Skaggs, Shook, Sousa, Suggs, Sisk, Sisco.

## 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.