Entry № 3498 · French origin

Gage Gage — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GAYJ /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Oath / pledge (Phineas Gage; modern unisex)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "oath / pledge (phineas gage; modern unisex)".

Gage is from the Old French gage (pledge, oath, security). Gage Creed — central character of Stephen King's Pet Sematary (1983); the toddler whose tragic death and resurrection drive the novel's horror; King has called it his most-frightening novel; the 1989 Mary Lambert film and 2019 Kevin Kölsch film adaptations made the character one of the most-iconic horror children in American fiction. Brent Gage — modern American figure. Gage County — Nebraska. Lily Gage — American character actress.

Oath / pledge.

The name in its native script.

Gage
Transliteration
Gage
Pronunciation
/ ɡeɪdʒ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gage stands.

Gage does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Gages before her.

Real people
Phineas Gage
Neuroscience case study.
1823 – 1860
In fiction
Gage Creed
Stephen King's Pet Sematary.
1983

Names connected to Gage.

The number behind Gage.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gage reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.