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First name origins & meanings:

  1. French, English, Latin: Wise one; from the sagebrush plant; prophet
  2. English: Wise one
  3. English: Wise; herb

First name variations: Saige, Saige, Saje

Last name origins & meanings:

  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’.

Famous people who gave their babies this name: Tracey Gold, Sylvester Stallone

This name appears in the following lists: Flowers and Trees