girl's name
Paige
PAYJ
- Origin English
- Gender Girl
- Syllables 1
- Letters 5
- Popularity Top 1000 (US)
- Births on record 190,355
the United States
#346
2025 births
Paige is a girl's name from a medieval job title meaning a young male servant, and it reached women by way of a surname. It ranks 165th in Scotland and 346th in the United States.
- Paige is a name of English origin.
- Peaked in 2003, when 5,763 babies were given the name.
- It has been falling over the past decade.
- Today about 1 in 3,750 babies in the United States is given this name.
- Paige started out as a boys' name and is now given almost entirely to girls.
- First appears in US birth records in 1914.
- 1 syllable, with the stress on syllable 1.
Paige over time
Births per decade in the United States, 1910s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.
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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 1910s | 64 |
| 1920s | 203 |
| 1930s | 181 |
| 1940s | 480 |
| 1950s | 1,153 |
| 1960s | 5,825 |
| 1970s | 4,827 |
| 1980s | 10,515 |
| 1990s | 50,715 |
| 2000s | 45,693 |
| 2010s | 22,625 |
| 2020s (to 2025) | 5,788 |
What Paige means
Paige means a young servant or attendant, from the Old French page. The role was specifically a boy in a noble household training toward knighthood, so the word describes a male occupation.
Where Paige comes from
Paige comes from the Old French page, a young male servant or attendant, itself probably from the Greek paidion, a small child, by way of Italian. In medieval households a page was a boy of seven or so placed with a lord to begin the training that led to squire and then knight. The word became an occupational surname, and the surname became a given name — which is how a term for a boy servant ended up as an almost entirely female name in modern use. Its American rise came in the 1980s and 1990s alongside other surname-names for girls. The page of a book is a different word entirely, from the Latin pagina, and the two have no connection despite being spelled identically.
Paige in use
Paige ranks 165th in Scotland with 25 births in 2024 and 346th in the United States with 884 births, and it is falling in our data from a peak in 2003. Our records carry it from 1914. It appears in every market we hold except France in any real numbers, and its Irish position at 174th is close to its Scottish one.
How popular is Paige?
In 2025, Paige was given to 884 babies in the United States, ranking #346 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Where Paige is used
US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.
Names that peaked alongside Paige
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Paige also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Paige over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
Paige in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
Sibling names for Paige
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Paige — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Paige
What does the name Paige mean?
Paige means "young servant," from the Old French page — a boy in a noble household training toward knighthood.
Was Paige originally a boy's name?
The word describes a male role, but the name reached modern use through the occupational surname rather than as a boy's given name.
Is Paige related to a page of a book?
No. That is the Latin pagina and is a separate word.
How popular is Paige?
165th in Scotland and 346th in the United States.
How many syllables are in Paige?
Paige has 1 syllable.
Is Paige a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Paige currently ranks #165 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.