Pate
Pate was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,070 among boys’ names; 282 Americans have been recorded with it since 1901 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pate by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pate?
#8,070 among boys’ names, 2025
Pate rose from #9,343 in 2015 to #8,070 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 5.9 per million.
13 babies in 2003, the peak
Pate peaked in 2003, when 13 boys were given it, #5,792 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,070 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,731 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,746 | 5.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,915 | 5.8 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,782 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,984 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,476 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,343 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,970 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,943 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #10,490 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,738 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,641 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,724 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,520 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,364 | 3.4 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,792 | 6.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,682 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,146 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,899 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,526 | 3.1 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,884 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,013 | 3.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,025 | 3.3 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,256 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,499 | 2.4 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,303 | 3.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,577 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,152 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,587 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,969 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,129 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,814 | 4.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,643 | 5.1 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,872 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,792 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,253 | 5.9 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,216 | 16.3 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,262 | 41.9 |
| 1901 | 7 | #923 | 65.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pate a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pate has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pate: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pate, and how old are they?
An estimated 197 Americans named Pate and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 331 people named Pate (56 women and girls, 275 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 170 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times 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).
More about Pate and names like it
- The most given names of the 2000sPate peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pate since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Pate.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Pate alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.