Tate
The boy's name Tate has been in the national records since 1912, with 28,955 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 193rd. About 28,000 Tates are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tate boys named Tate
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 28,955
- Estimated living today
- 28,000
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 193rd
- Rank in 2025
- 193rd
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 1,555 / 27,400
How old the living Tates are
born that year still alive today
Of the 28,955 babies given the name since 1912, about 28,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 18,000 of them are children and 80 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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 the name comes from
Origin Old English
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Tates
- Tate McRae (born 2003)Canadian singer, songwriter, and dancer
- Tate Donovan (born 1963)American actor
- Tate Taylor (born 1969)American actor, screenwriter, film producer and director
- Tate Reeves (born 1974)65th governor of Mississippi
- Tate Smith (born 1981)Australian canoeist
- Tate Ellington (born 1979)American actor
- Tate Armstrong (born 1955)American basketball player
- Tate Stevens (born 1975)American singer
People named Tate with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tate is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tate is most concentrated in Utah (6.2×), South Dakota (5.4×), Idaho (3.8×), Iowa (3.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Tate peaked:
Tate elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Tate | 2,383 | 299th |
| England and Wales girls | Tate | 225 | 1,269th |
| Scotland boys | Tate | 93 | 298th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Tate | 37 | 295th |
| Ireland boys | Tate | 9 | 718th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Tate among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Tate | 16 | 20 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Tate 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.