Masculine dossier · first seen 1990

Gauge

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Gauge
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 90.8% from peak

Peak era

2009

Peak rank proxy

327

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen Z

1990Peak 20092024

Peak year

2009

Decline from peak

90.8%

2024

All-time

4,794

Gauge once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 2009, when 327 boys were named Gauge.

In 2024, only 30 boys were given the name.

Down 90.8% from its peak.

All told, about 4,794 Americans have been named Gauge and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1990.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen Z

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 90.8% from peak

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