Slater
Slater was given to 155 boys in 2025, #1,275 among boys’ names; 2,445 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,340 Americans named Slater and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Slater by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Slater?
#1,275 among boys’ names, 2025
Slater rose from #2,558 in 2015 to #1,275 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 25.6 to 90.7 per million.
166 babies in 2025, the peak
Slater peaked in 2025, when 166 babies were given it (155 boys, #1,275 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 114 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 155 | #1,275 | 90.7 |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,548 | 66.2 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,574 | 64.9 |
| 2022 | 128 | #1,432 | 73.3 |
| 2021 | 107 | #1,604 | 61.2 |
| 2020 | 82 | #1,827 | 47.5 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,015 | 40.7 |
| 2018 | 93 | #1,702 | 51.2 |
| 2017 | 77 | #1,894 | 41.6 |
| 2016 | 55 | #2,384 | 29.0 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,558 | 25.6 |
| 2014 | 75 | #1,939 | 39.0 |
| 2013 | 52 | #2,417 | 27.5 |
| 2012 | 47 | #2,622 | 24.8 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,225 | 31.1 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,865 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,515 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,669 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 56 | #2,331 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,145 | 29.7 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,390 | 24.5 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,832 | 18.6 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,117 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 69 | #1,704 | 35.5 |
| 2001 | 58 | #1,904 | 29.9 |
| 2000 | 55 | #1,916 | 28.0 |
| 1999 | 52 | #1,894 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,149 | 22.5 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,386 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 50 | #1,834 | 26.4 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,090 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 58 | #1,599 | 30.0 |
| 1993 | 43 | #1,924 | 21.9 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,396 | 15.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,897 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,741 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,137 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,329 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,967 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,286 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,142 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,948 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,112 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,641 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,551 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,340 | 2.7 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,433 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,477 | 2.3 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,635 | 3.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,949 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,497 | 5.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,652 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,735 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,747 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,727 | 9.9 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,348 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,106 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,495 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,315 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Slater a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,445 Americans recorded as Slater, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls and 155 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Slater: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Slater, and how old are they?
2,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,445 Americans ever recorded as Slater. The median Slater alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,661 people named Slater (67 women and girls, 1,594 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,631 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 32 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 267 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 801 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,230 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Slater born?
The states with the most babies named Slater are California, Texas and Florida, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,035 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,211 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,002 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,127 | 0.2× |
| Mississippi | 6 | #513 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,024 | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,020 | 0.2× |
| Oregon | 5 | #695 | 0.2× |
Where Slater is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Slater is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Slater with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,636 babies since 1880, Slater is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 166 of their 186 babies (89%), again the most given.
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 Slater
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Slater and names like it
- Compare Slater and SlayterBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSlater peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Slater since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Slater.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Slater alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.