girls:
143 births since 1997
#5573 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1880
#3420 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1880
#6414 (17th percentile)
The name Fate is the #6,414 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,329 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 17.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,420 (25.4% percentile) for all time with 1,186 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,573 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 143 births since 1997.
Fate has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1997 for girls). Birth data for Fate is available in 115 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (106 years for boys and 21 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Fate has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Fate were boys.
For boys, Fate reached its peak popularity in 1897, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #204) with 156 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 156 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Fate ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 3.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Fate reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #889) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fate".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Fate. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Fate is pronounced as fayt, which has 1 syllables.
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