How rare is the name Gauge?

3,909 people in the United States have the first name Gauge, about 1 in 77,266. It ranks #4,673 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GAUGE

#4,673

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,909
About
1 in 77,266
This common or more
84.4%
Who bears it

Of the 3,909 people named Gauge, 85% reported their origin as White, 7% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.4% as two or more races. 99.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Gauge peaked in 2009, when 327 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19902025
Peak year
2009
Births that year
327
In 2025*
26 ▼92%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 4,821 babies have been given the name since 1990. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Gauge by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,965. The largest share of babies named Gauge, 60.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1990s#6,083297
2000s#2,1711,842
2010s#1,9652,359
2020s#5,354323
Millennials 1981–963%
Generation Z 1997–1260.1%
2013 and later36.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Gauge is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Gauge has been most common in Nevada (4.2×), Arizona (3.1×), and Idaho (3×), and least common in New York (0.16×).

3,270 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Gauge

#4,671 Evonne · 3,910#4,671 Yulia · 3,910#4,674 Holley · 3,908#4,675 Salman · 3,904

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Gauge, most common first.

#857 Gage · 53,248#4,790 Gaige · 3,774

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