Gates — #3215 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Gates

The Social Security Administration has registered 434 babies named Gates between 1904 and 2024, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gates currently holds the #3215 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 37 babies received it in a single year. Gates is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 44 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gates performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 127 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Gates shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Gates in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gates 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 434 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.