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Slater: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 155 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,275 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 93% of babies named Slater in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,275 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Slater: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 155 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,275 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 155 (2025).
In 2025, 155 US boys were named Slater, making it the 1,275th most common boys’ name of the year, up 273 places from #1,548 in 2024. That is 41 more than the 114 boys named Slater in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,275, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 155. For comparison, it was #2,559 in 2015 and #3,637 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Slater in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 2,445 US babies have been given the name, 2.7% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 752 babies named Slater.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 995 US boys were named Slater; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 155. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,020 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Slater ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #513 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Slayter are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Slayter (191).
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 Slater in the open dataset we use.
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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 6 | #513 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #696 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #1,002 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,020 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,024 | — |
| California | 21 | #1,035 | #1,619 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,127 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,211 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,381 | 155 | #1,275 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,033 | 114 | #1,548 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,002 | 111 | #1,574 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,595 | 128 | #1,432 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,297 | 107 | #1,604 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,872 | 82 | #1,827 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,044 | 73 | #2,016 |
| 2018 | — | — | 93 | #1,702 |
| 2017 | — | — | 77 | #1,894 |
| 2016 | — | — | 55 | #2,384 |
| 2015 | — | — | 49 | #2,559 |
| 2014 | — | — | 75 | #1,940 |
| 2013 | — | — | 52 | #2,418 |
| 2012 | — | — | 47 | #2,623 |
| 2011 | — | — | 59 | #2,226 |
| 2010 | — | — | 42 | #2,866 |
| 2009 | — | — | 51 | #2,516 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,670 |
| 2007 | — | — | 56 | #2,331 |
| 2006 | — | — | 61 | #2,146 |
| 2005 | — | — | 49 | #2,394 |
| 2004 | — | — | 37 | #2,836 |
| 2003 | — | — | 53 | #2,121 |
| 2002 | — | — | 69 | #1,707 |
| 2001 | — | — | 58 | #1,908 |
| 2000 | — | — | 55 | #1,920 |
| 1999 | — | — | 52 | #1,897 |
| 1998 | — | — | 43 | #2,152 |
| 1997 | — | — | 35 | #2,389 |
| 1996 | — | — | 50 | #1,838 |
| 1995 | — | — | 40 | #2,095 |
| 1994 | — | — | 58 | #1,604 |
| 1993 | — | — | 43 | #1,929 |
| 1992 | — | — | 31 | #2,401 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,903 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,748 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,144 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,336 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,974 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,288 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,144 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,950 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #4,114 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,643 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,553 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,342 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,434 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,478 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,637 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,951 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,498 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,654 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,736 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,749 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,729 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,349 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,107 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,496 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,317 |
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).