Meaning not yet researched.
Nate: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 93 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,019 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,019 in 1880; #1,748 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nate in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,748 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #1,019.
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Nate: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 93 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,019 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 181 (2007).
In 2025, 93 US boys were named Nate, making it the 1,748th most common boys’ name of the year, down 178 places from #1,570 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 111 boys named Nate in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,019, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 181, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,674 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nate in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 4,791 US babies have been given the name, 6.3% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,191 babies named Nate.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 944 US boys were named Nate; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 111. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,366 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nate ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #997 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nathan (589,271 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nat and Nath are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nat (2,162), Nath (36).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nate in the open dataset we use.
Nate is listed as a nickname for Ignatius, Nathan, Nathaniel.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #997 | #1,064 |
| New York | 12 | #1,034 | #1,134 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,100 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,177 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,406 | #1,249 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,475 | #2,626 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 93 | #1,748 |
| 2024 | — | — | 111 | #1,570 |
| 2023 | — | — | 110 | #1,589 |
| 2022 | — | — | 108 | #1,618 |
| 2021 | — | — | 100 | #1,662 |
| 2020 | — | — | 79 | #1,885 |
| 2019 | — | — | 76 | #1,947 |
| 2018 | — | — | 93 | #1,697 |
| 2017 | — | — | 83 | #1,816 |
| 2016 | — | — | 91 | #1,717 |
| 2015 | — | — | 94 | #1,674 |
| 2014 | — | — | 104 | #1,544 |
| 2013 | — | — | 113 | #1,464 |
| 2012 | — | — | 108 | #1,495 |
| 2011 | — | — | 132 | #1,302 |
| 2010 | — | — | 137 | #1,275 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,670 | 126 | #1,363 |
| 2008 | — | — | 137 | #1,274 |
| 2007 | — | — | 181 | #1,046 |
| 2006 | — | — | 150 | #1,139 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,378 | 141 | #1,148 |
| 2004 | — | — | 116 | #1,290 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,602 | 89 | #1,474 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,333 | 91 | #1,430 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,059 | 78 | #1,561 |
| 2000 | — | — | 54 | #1,938 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,081 | 54 | #1,844 |
| 1998 | — | — | 57 | #1,784 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,084 | 31 | #2,591 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,131 | 45 | #1,979 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,046 | 35 | #2,283 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,928 | 33 | #2,379 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,927 | 43 | #1,925 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,316 | 29 | #2,513 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,597 | 28 | #2,520 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,316 | 21 | #3,027 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,522 | 33 | #2,137 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,973 | 25 | #2,416 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,480 | 32 | #1,966 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,454 | 14 | #3,382 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,363 | 23 | #2,339 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,907 | 22 | #2,344 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,059 | 18 | #2,640 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,222 | 16 | #2,932 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,483 | 31 | #1,846 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,574 | 21 | #2,419 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,771 | 29 | #1,894 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,870 | 24 | #2,052 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,192 | 37 | #1,533 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,054 | 49 | #1,253 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,704 | 30 | #1,690 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,080 | 44 | #1,282 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,099 |
| 1972 | — | — | 31 | #1,552 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,020 | 25 | #1,816 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,824 | 22 | #1,918 |
| 1969 | — | — | 29 | #1,517 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,055 | 28 | #1,496 |
| 1967 | — | — | 26 | #1,530 |
| 1966 | — | — | 23 | #1,640 |
| 1965 | — | — | 25 | #1,582 |
| 1964 | — | — | 23 | #1,683 |
| 1963 | — | — | 24 | #1,647 |
| 1962 | — | — | 30 | #1,450 |
| 1961 | — | — | 42 | #1,231 |
| 1960 | — | — | 40 | #1,249 |
| 1959 | — | — | 41 | #1,223 |
| 1958 | — | — | 26 | #1,551 |
| 1957 | — | — | 19 | #1,877 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,231 |
| 1955 | — | — | 19 | #1,832 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,105 |
| 1953 | — | — | 14 | #2,159 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #3,029 |
| 1951 | — | — | 14 | #2,116 |
| 1949 | — | — | 10 | #2,561 |
| 1948 | — | — | 13 | #2,190 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,325 |
| 1946 | — | — | 16 | #1,867 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,346 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,344 |
| 1943 | — | — | 10 | #2,510 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,447 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,599 |
| 1940 | — | — | 13 | #2,055 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,826 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #3,069 |
| 1935 | — | — | 13 | #2,100 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,562 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #2,064 |
| 1931 | — | — | 12 | #2,293 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,999 |
| 1927 | — | — | 11 | #2,645 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,301 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,319 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,196 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,367 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,170 |
| 1921 | — | — | 12 | #2,585 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,403 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,640 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,031 |
| 1917 | — | — | 11 | #2,520 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,358 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,823 |
| 1913 | — | — | 14 | #1,484 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,838 |
| 1896 | — | — | 6 | #1,067 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #1,019 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).