Cage
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cage is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: person who makes or sells cages for pet animals; also keeper of a prison cage.
- USUnited States1 in 62K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 100K
- ITItaly≈1 in 97K
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)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- 1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
5,372 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person who makes or sells cages for pet animals; also keeper of a prison cage.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cage 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,372 | 1 in 62K | 5.4K | Cage | 316 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 100K | listed | Cage | 89 |
| IT Italy | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Cage | 10 |
| FR France | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 221K | 38 | — | 2 |
| IN India | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | 6 | Cage | 21 |
| CA Canada | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Cage | 50 |
| AU Australia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Cage | 52 |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Cage is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ME/OFr cage ‘cage’; metonymic for CAGER or equivalent to atte Cage; first attested Gervase Cage 1211 FrLeic
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, and seller of small cages for animals or birds, or a keeper of the large public cage in which petty criminals were con¬ fined for short periods of imprisonment. The name is from
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, A cage or pen.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-fin, wooden-pot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Cageb. 1912USAmerican avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
- Xenia Cageb. 1913USAmerican painter
- Buddy Cageb. 1946USAmerican pedal steel guitarist (1946–2020)
- Wayne Cageb. 1951USAmerican baseball player
- Michael Cageb. 1962USAmerican basketball player (born 1962)
- Nicolas Cageb. 1964USAmerican actor (born 1964)
- Diana Cageb. 1969USAmerican writer
- Caroline Cageb. 1976HUHungarian pornographic actress
- Weston Cageb. 1990USAmerican singer and actor
- Vanessa Cageb. 1991USAmerican pornographic actress
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.4K | #6,345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5K | #6,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.9K | #6,377 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 29 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Cage mean, and where does it come from?
- person who makes or sells cages for pet animals; also keeper of a prison cage. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Cage?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,372 people named Cage in 2010, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
- In which country does Cage have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Cage, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cage.
- Where is Cage most common?
- Cage is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 62 thousand people carrying it.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cageThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Cage”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.