Paige is an English surname that comes from the Old French page, meaning "page" or "young servant", the boy who attended a knight. It took off as an American girls' name in the 1980s, with the spelling Paige set apart from the word by its extra letters. Paige was a top 100 name in the United States from 2000 to the early 2010s, peaking at number 47 in 2003, and ranks number 346 in 2025.