Mates — #13630 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mates

The Social Security Administration has registered 16 babies named Mates between 2016 and 2024, spanning 9 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mates currently holds the #13630 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 6 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mates performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Mates shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Mates in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mates 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 16 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.