Fate
Fate is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 444th, in 1897.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191935 births
- Best rank
- #444in 1897
- Since 1880
- 1,329people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,186 boys have been named Fate in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 35 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 35 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 143 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Fate | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 101 | |
| 1890s | 101 | |
| 1900s | 82 | |
| 1910s | 188 | |
| 1920s | 199 | |
| 1930s | 152 | |
| 1940s | 115 | |
| 1950s | 72 | |
| 1960s | 42 | |
| 1970s | 23 | |
| 1980s | 17 | |
| 1990s | 23 | |
| 2000s | 32 | |
| 2010s | 19 | |
| 2020s | 20 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Fate was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Fate
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ciceropeak 1920
- Gusspeak 1920
- Gustavepeak 1915
- Washingtonpeak 1921
- Dockpeak 1920
- Mosepeak 1919
- Ikepeak 1953
- Ligepeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.