Nate
Nate is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 110 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1100.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2007181 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1880
- 4,696people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,395 boys have been named Nate in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 181 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 26%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 301 girls have also been given it, 6.4% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Nate | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 66 | |
| 1920s | 79 | |
| 1930s | 59 | |
| 1940s | 105 | |
| 1950s | 163 | |
| 1960s | 290 | |
| 1970s | 311 | |
| 1980s | 235 | |
| 1990s | 376 | |
| 2000s | 1,163 | |
| 2010s | 1,031 | |
| 2020s | 506 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Nate was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Nate
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Andreipeak 2006
- Adanpeak 2005
- Joaquinpeak 2008
- Antonipeak 2007
- Marcellopeak 2024
- Adrienpeak 2009
- Adrianopeak 2006
- Jhonnypeak 2006
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.