Cagé

surname · Latin script

Cagé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 3M(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 62K
  • BEBelgium1 in 469K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

5,372 people, 2010

Sources
116 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cage in US United States, FR France, BE Belgium.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Cagé: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Cagé
  1. Middle Englishcage(measured from records)
  2. Old Frenchcage(measured from records)
  3. Latincavea(measured from records)

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.

Sources 5

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cagé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Cagé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5,3721 in 62K5.4KCage73
BR Brazil1611 in 1.3M161——
BE Belgium251 in 469K25Cage7
FR France≈23 est.≈1 in 3M38Cage116
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3——
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2——

5,372 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cagé is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, Swahili, Polish

    Also written Cage, Cågę, Cägë

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Portugal, United Kingdom

    Also written Cage, Cåge

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cage

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cagé mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
In which country does Cagé have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Cagé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cage.
Where is Cagé most common?
Cagé is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 62 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Cagé?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,372 people named Cagé in 2010, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cagé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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