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sage Name Meaning and History

  1. English and French: nickname for a wise man, from Middle English, Old French sage ‘learned’, ‘sensible’, from Latin sagus ‘prophetic’, akin to sagax ‘sharp’, ‘perceptive’.
  2. Irish: variant of Savage, via the Gaelicized form Sabhaois.
  3. German: habitational name from a place near Oldenburg, so named from an old word, sege ‘sedge’, ‘reed’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of sage Families in the US in 1920
Number of sage families
 122-241
 41-121
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