Slate
Slate reached its high-water mark in 2018 at number 2,355, and has been recorded 863 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,676th. About 850 Slates are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Slate
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 863
- Estimated living today
- 850
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 2,355th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,676th
- First recorded
- 1990
How old the living Slates are
born that year still alive today
Of the 863 babies given the name since 1990, about 850 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 680 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Slate is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Slate is most concentrated in Texas (9.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular boys’ names the year Slate peaked:
Related names
Slate against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.