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Girl · Old French, through English
Paige
Say it: PAYJ
Meaning
From an English surname for a page, a young servant, from Old French page.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
An occupational surname that became popular for American girls from the 1980s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 143,373 babies given this name since 1914
- At its height in 1995, about 1 in 307 girls
- 1,130 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Page
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Where this comes from
- English poll taxes and lay subsidy rolls (13th and 14th centuries)
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.