Gauge
Gauge is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. Its best rank was 722nd, in 2009.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 300.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2009327 births
- Best rank
- #722in 2009
- Since 1990
- 4,794people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,794 boys have been named Gauge in the United States since 1990, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 327 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 49%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Gauge was the 722nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Gauge
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kaylebpeak 2010
- Braydenpeak 2010
- Eshanpeak 2011
- Caylebpeak 2009
- Breckinpeak 2012
- Camdonpeak 2011
- Ethynpeak 2010
- Broganpeak 2011
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.