As an English andFrench surname, fromsage, a nickname for a wise person. The given name, in general use since the 1990s, is also associated with thesage plant. CompareDesage,Lesage.
1974,Alison Lurie,The War Between the Tates: A Novel, Open Road Media, published2012,→ISBN:
She wanted to give the child a unique, meaningful name; among those she and Linda liked, she said, were Laurel and Lavender. Or if it was a boy, perhapsSage . “Why not Spinach or Cabbage?” Brian had scoffed.
1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther,Legenden und Geschichten[1] (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff,→ISBN:
Und der weise Greis, mein Meister, gab mir seinen Segen, daß ich Euch aus jenem wunderbaren, mit Unzialschrift geschriebenen Buche einige Gleichnisse, Geschichten undSagen erzähle.
And the wise old man, my master, gave me his blessing to tell you some parables, stories, andlegends from that wonderful book written in uncial script.
