Paige
[peɪdʒ]Meaning
from an English surname meaning "servant, page" in Middle English
Background Story
Paige is an English surname and given name; the surname is a variant of Page, an occupational name meaning "servant, page" in Middle English. It is ultimately derived, by way of Old French and Italian, from Greek paidion, "little boy". The given name was transferred from the surname and became popular as a girl's name in the twentieth-century United States. It received some public attention from a character in the 1958 novel Parrish and its 1961 film adaptation, and saw a larger surge in popularity in the 1980s, attributed to the character Paige Matheson in the American soap opera Knots Landing.
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