Tate
Tate stands at #194 nationally in 2025, and gathering speed. First recorded 1912, best year 2025, 27,400 bearers across the whole run.
Tate’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Tate, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Tate since 1912
Tate is at its all-time peak right now: #194 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Tate is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Tate runs strongest in Wyoming at 1.01% in 2025, then Montana and South Dakota.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Tate
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Tatum
#189 in 2025
Tucker
#181 in 2025
Thiago
#50 in 2025
Legend
#193 in 2025
Reese
#192 in 2025
Jaziel
#198 in 2025
Callan
#190 in 2025
Haven
#190 in 2025
Browse: names starting with T · all names
About Tate
How common is Tate today?
Tate stands at #194 nationally in 2025, and gathering speed. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1912.
Does Tate have a meaning on record?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Tate keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Is there a sibling name for Tate?
The recipe puts Tatum first, then Thiago, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
Get Tate’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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