| The girl name Sage [ 1 syll. sa-ge, sag-e ] is also used, though less frequently, as a boy name. It is pronounced SEYJH KEY. Sage's language of origin is English and it is also predominantly used in English. Derived literally from the ordinary word sage. It represents the transferred use of the vocabulary word as a given name. See Sage for more info. Sage is a rather popular baby girl name. The name has been increasing in popularity since the 1990s; prior to that, it was of only irregular use. At the modest height of its usage in 2004, 0.043% of baby girls were named Sage. It was #361 in rank then. In 2007, it ranked at #468 with a usage of 0.033%, and it was the most commonly used within all girl names in its family. Although Sage is used more commonly as a girl name today, there was a period from 1991 to 1992 that it was more popular with boys. After 1993, increasingly the name became more popular with girls than with boys. In 2006, 2 times more girls than boys were given the name Sage. Baby names that sound like Sage include the English Shay, the English and Irish Shea, the English Shey, the English Sheye, the Scandinavian Sille, the English Sky, the English Skye, the English Su, the English Sue, the Arabic Aesha, the Arabic Ayesha, the French Sacha, the Scandinavian Saga, the German Sascha, the Russian and English Sasha, the Scandinavian and German Sassa, the English Sassie, the English Shae, the English Shaye, the German Sigi, the German Sissi, the English and German Sissy, the German Susi, the English Susie, the German Susy, the English Suzie, the English Suzy, and the Dutch and German Saskia. KEY: Pronunciation for Sage: S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; JH as in "gee (JH.IY)"
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