Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Gage
/GAYJ/
Meaning
“Pledge or security”
From Old French 'gage' meaning pledge or security; primarily a surname turned given name, popularized in the United States in the 1990s partly through Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary'.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
strongplayful
How it ages.
Peaked in the US around 2010; feels like a product of that era.
The cultural moment.
Top 200 in the United States from roughly 2000 to 2015; now declining.