Fate
Fate was last recorded in 2023, when 10 babies were given it; 1,329 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fate by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fate?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,888, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1919, the peak
Fate peaked in 1919, when 35 boys were given it, #1,196 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | under 5 | 10 | #7,888 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,139 | 5 | #12,951 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,626 | 5 | #12,727 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,378 | 6 | #11,207 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,665 | 6 | #11,193 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,364 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,322 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,285 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,597 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,543 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #15,589 | 7 | #9,999 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,884 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,411 | 6 | #11,512 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #12,949 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,750 | 5 | #12,643 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,319 | 5 | #11,996 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,978 | 6 | #10,383 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,716 | 5 | #11,439 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,733 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,150 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,391 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,221 | 7 | #8,129 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,470 | 5 | #9,738 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,268 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #8,539 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,367 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,736 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,576 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,373 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,744 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,220 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,405 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,096 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 7 | #3,466 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 6 | #3,765 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 7 | #3,413 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #3,776 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 10 | #2,745 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 6 | #3,730 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 6 | #3,662 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,663 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 9 | #2,835 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 10 | #2,640 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,546 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 9 | #2,743 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 9 | #2,728 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 11 | #2,358 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 12 | #2,260 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 12 | #2,251 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 14 | #2,104 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 10 | #2,454 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 15 | #1,841 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 16 | #1,859 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 12 | #2,189 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 11 | #2,249 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 13 | #2,017 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 13 | #1,994 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 12 | #2,116 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 8 | #2,748 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #2,979 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 10 | #2,436 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 17 | #1,742 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 24 | #1,372 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 19 | #1,675 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 19 | #1,657 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 23 | #1,545 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 17 | #1,885 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 20 | #1,726 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 20 | #1,767 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 19 | #1,814 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 15 | #2,120 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 22 | #1,696 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 17 | #1,971 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 29 | #1,376 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 19 | #1,853 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 21 | #1,715 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 35 | #1,196 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 32 | #1,242 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 26 | #1,377 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 14 | #2,079 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 15 | #1,905 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 27 | #1,111 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 12 | #1,611 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 11 | #1,562 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 5 | #1,829 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 11 | #1,003 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 6 | #1,336 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 8 | #1,029 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 8 | #956 | |
| 1905 | under 5 | 6 | #1,141 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 13 | #659 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 9 | #811 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 6 | #1,053 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 11 | #652 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 15 | #655 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 6 | #971 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 5 | #1,189 | |
| 1897 | under 5 | 19 | #444 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 12 | #652 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 11 | #651 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 10 | #688 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 9 | #721 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 7 | #884 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 12 | #532 | |
| 1890 | under 5 | 10 | #642 | |
| 1889 | under 5 | 7 | #830 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 13 | #563 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 10 | #605 | |
| 1886 | under 5 | 8 | #719 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 8 | #724 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 15 | #494 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 9 | #660 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 7 | #784 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 13 | #490 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 11 | #582 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Fate a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,329 Americans recorded as Fate, 11% are girls and 89% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Fate: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fate, and how old are they?
An estimated 416 Americans named Fate and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 16 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 513 people named Fate (223 women and girls, 290 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 443 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,046 babies since 1880, Fate is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 none of their 45 babies recorded by SSA was a Fate (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fate
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Elza | 2,942 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fate and names like it
- Compare Fate and FatehBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sFate peaked in 1919.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fate since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Fate.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Fate alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.