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Gage
Just found somebody on Facebook named Gage. Can't tell the gender of the individual; they appear masculine on their facebook (includes male pronouns) but they go by a female persona on a game we're playing so I'd rather not speculate on that front. Never seen this name before in my life; what do you all think?---"one particular boogie will move mirror massaging with stirring crepe mixture, positioning loaves while in the furnace then toting items in containers" ~ best Russian daing sites (guest, 198.144.149.xxx) (2020)
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I'll always see this as the name of the zombie baby from Pet Sematary.
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Just another lnfn really, but because it sounds like 'gauge' it makes me unhappy. Definitely inhuman!
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I don’t think it seen it either. I much prefer Gabe.
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Don't like it, I know a teenager withthisname
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An old friend of mine named her son Gage, I guess it was in the early 00s. It's alright, I don't love it. Just a surname name to me, a little awkward because it sounds like a word, but easy to recognize as a name instead, with that spelling - kinda like Nash. A little better than Nash, imo.
Friend and her husband admitted they were influenced by Pet Sematary, but didn't care about the character because they just liked the name.
I never saw PS so I didn't care either. The name reminded me, and still reminds me, of Phineas Gage (famous for surviving a severe brain injury that changed his personality).
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One of my friends has a grandson named Gage Lastname. In his case it's a family surname. He was born around 2000. I'm not too crazy about the name.
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I've known a few: all guys. I don't like it.

This message was edited 1/18/2021, 5:10 PM

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Gage was fairly common for boys in the USA between 1995 and 2015. I think it's a good name in the abstract but I'm a little queasy about the fact that it was popularized by a character in "Pet Sematary" who was a small child who came back from the dead and murdered his mother. When I mention that I often get the response "but the child actor who played him was so cute!"
There was also some influence, though, from a character on the American TV show "Emergency!" named John Gage who was usually addressed as "Gage" by other characters on that program.
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