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Payge
How to Pronounce Payge
Pronounced PAYJ /ˈpeɪdʒ/High
Meaning: Payge is a modern respelling of Paige, an occupational surname for a young page or attendant, from Old French and ultimately a Latin/Greek root for a young servant. As a girls' first name it is a recent development; Payge simply gives the sound a decorative spelling.Medium
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Payge is a decorative respelling of Paige, which began as an occupational surname for a page — a youth in service to a household — from Old French page. Paige became a popular girls' name in the late twentieth century, and the Payge variant followed. Recorded from around 1962, it crested about 2006 at just over sixty girls a year.
Payge has always trailed the standard Paige and stayed uncommon, easing off after the twenty-tens. A single crisp beat, it reads as a modern, individualized take on a familiar name rather than an antique.
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What does the name Payge mean?
Payge is a respelling of Paige, an occupational surname meaning a young page or attendant.
How do you pronounce Payge?
It's said PAYJ /ˈpeɪdʒ/ — one syllable.
Is Payge a boy or girl name?
Payge is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Payge?
Payge is an uncommon respelling of Paige that crested in the mid-two-thousands and has since eased off.