Tate
Tate was given to 1,862 boys in 2025, #194 among boys’ names; 28,955 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 28,300 Americans named Tate and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 4 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tate by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tate mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tate is “a male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “radiant, glad, cheerful, tender” (*taitaz).
From Middle English *Tate, partially from Old English Tāta, from Proto-West Germanic *tait, from Proto-Germanic *taitaz (“radiant, glad, cheerful, tender”); and partially from Old Norse Táta, a personal name of unknown meaning. Doublet of Tait and Zeiss.
/teɪt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tate?
#194 among boys’ names, 2025
Tate rose from #420 in 2015 to #194 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.39 to 1.1 per 1,000.
2,022 babies in 2025, the peak
Tate peaked in 2025, when 2,022 babies were given it (1,862 boys, #194 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,700 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,862 | #194 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 1,700 | #210 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,854 | #197 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1,489 | #234 | 0.85 |
| 2021 | 1,092 | #304 | 0.62 |
| 2020 | 898 | #353 | 0.52 |
| 2019 | 698 | #438 | 0.39 |
| 2018 | 582 | #494 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 682 | #450 | 0.37 |
| 2016 | 691 | #448 | 0.36 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 742 | #420 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 803 | #388 | 0.42 |
| 2013 | 880 | #357 | 0.47 |
| 2012 | 769 | #389 | 0.41 |
| 2011 | 724 | #394 | 0.38 |
| 2010 | 717 | #395 | 0.37 |
| 2009 | 636 | #442 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 672 | #433 | 0.33 |
| 2007 | 711 | #412 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 710 | #411 | 0.35 |
| 2005 | 759 | #382 | 0.38 |
| 2004 | 700 | #388 | 0.35 |
| 2003 | 644 | #404 | 0.33 |
| 2002 | 535 | #455 | 0.28 |
| 2001 | 563 | #431 | 0.29 |
| 2000 | 547 | #436 | 0.28 |
| 1999 | 492 | #463 | 0.26 |
| 1998 | 411 | #512 | 0.22 |
| 1997 | 345 | #558 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 307 | #587 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 246 | #669 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 260 | #643 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 236 | #670 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 227 | #684 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 132 | #914 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 112 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,237 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,140 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,142 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,186 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 44 | #1,455 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 51 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,175 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,153 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 86 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 92 | #892 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 85 | #903 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 87 | #890 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 80 | #911 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 64 | #1,011 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 81 | #892 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 113 | #771 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 54 | #1,131 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,218 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,215 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 29 | #1,441 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 30 | #1,423 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 32 | #1,379 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 23 | #1,692 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 29 | #1,482 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #2,180 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 25 | #1,629 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 29 | #1,519 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,946 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,310 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,852 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,642 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,623 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,136 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,726 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,847 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,988 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,498 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,829 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,638 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,473 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,160 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,764 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,705 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,881 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,600 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,500 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,912 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,231 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,341 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,511 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,841 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,800 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,623 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,509 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tate a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 28,955 Americans recorded as Tate, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 160 girls and 1,862 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tate: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tate, and how old are they?
28,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 28,955 Americans ever recorded as Tate. The median Tate alive today is 13 years old; half are between 4 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 19,139 people named Tate (1,217 women and girls, 17,922 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,351 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 11 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 135 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 941 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,600 |
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 Tate born?
The states with the most babies named Tate are Texas, Ohio and Georgia, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 193 | #227 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 96 | #143 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 92 | #143 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 91 | #234 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 80 | #161 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 76 | #111 | 1.1× |
| California | 73 | #493 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 73 | #147 | 1.0× |
| Iowa | 68 | #49 | 3.5× |
| Missouri | 66 | #118 | 1.4× |
Where Tate is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tate is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1912 it was given 4.3 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 Tate 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 38,844 babies since 1880, Tate is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,022 of their 2,260 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 Tate
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 Tate and names like it
- Compare Tate and TaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTate peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tate since 1910.
- Old English namesWiktionary’s origin for Tate: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Tate.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tate alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.