Gage

Gage, part of the current craze for one-syllable surnames, is hovering around the Top 150, with associations to tasty green gage plums and the mathematical gauge.

Gage was first noticed as a character in Stephen King's Pet Semetary--though Gage Creed was far from an admirable role model. That book was published in 1983, and the movie came out in 1989, the very year that Gage hit the Top 1000. It is now at Number 154, and there were more than 2,500 little Gages born in 2010.

Gage has spawned a couple of successful spelling variations, so don't be surprised to run into a Gaige or a Gauge.