Paige: Meaning of Baby Name Paige

About the Name Paige

Paige descends from the medieval English/French page meaning "young attendant" or "servant boy" — referring to a young man (often of noble birth) serving as an attendant at a medieval court, or as a junior member of a medieval guild. The name was originally a male occupational/attendant term that has shifted to predominantly feminine use in 20th-century American naming.

The contemporary American Paige boom began in the 1980s and reached the US top 100 girls' rank from 1995 through 2010 — about fifteen years of consistent American popularity, peaking around 2003. The name has receded slightly since but remains in steady use. Notable bearers include American actress Paige O'Hara (the voice of Belle in Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast), American basketball player Paige Bueckers, and the fictional Paige Halliwell-Mitchell of Charmed (2001–2006).

The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: the surname-style sophistication, the in-built medieval-court register from the underlying word, and the compact one-syllable structure with soft consonants. The name reads as both modern and classical, slightly preppy without being heavy. The medieval association with court-attendant figures gives the name an inherent dignified register. Common nicknames are scarce since the name is already short — Paigey and the rare Pao each occasionally appear; the alternate spelling Page (without the I) has its own SSA tracking but is much rarer. There are no significant international variants since the name's first-name use is essentially English-American.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.

Quick Facts About Paige

1,414

French baby names in our dictionary

843

French female names

86

5-letter P-names in our dictionary

167

P-female names total

1990–2025

years of US SSA records (36 total)

124,533

total US births named Paige (all years)

US Popularity History (1990–2025)

📉 Falling fast: Paige dropped 70 places in the US girls ranking over the last 5 years (#276 in 2020 → #346 in 2025).

Annual US births named Paige by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2003 with 5,758 girls named Paige (girl rank #47 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #346 for girls (884 US births). That's 299 places below its 2003 peak.

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Paige Most Popular?

Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Paige the strongest states are Alaska, New Hampshire, North Dakota.

Strongest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Alaska	#120	44
2	New Hampshire	#133	59
3	North Dakota	#140	36
4	Montana	#142	56
5	Connecticut	#146	205
6	Massachusetts	#156	350
7	Pennsylvania	#163	680
8	Rhode Island	#165	26
9	District of Columbia	#170	45
10	Maryland	#184	295

Weakest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Alabama	#544	80
2	Kentucky	#512	69
3	Tennessee	#488	155
4	Mississippi	#450	73
5	Louisiana	#436	116
6	Texas	#432	731
7	Indiana	#426	194
8	South Carolina	#394	114
9	Florida	#367	500
10	Georgia	#366	301

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Paige in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

Variant Forms

Name	Meaning	Gender	Origin
Padgett	Attendant	Male	French
Page	Child	Female	Greek
Paget	Attendant	Male	French

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