Fate — boys' name

What the Data Says About Fate

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,186 babies named Fate between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Fate currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 35 babies received it in a single year. Fate is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 143 additional births since 1997.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fate performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 199 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Fate shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 46 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Fate in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fate in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,186 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.