girls:
301 births since 1968
#5415 (5th percentile)
boys:
4.3k births since 1880
#1857 (59th percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1880
#4036 (48th percentile)
The name Nate is the #4,036 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,584 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 47.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,857 (59.5% percentile) for all time with 4,283 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,415 (5.2% percentile) for all time with 301 births since 1968.
Nate has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1968 for girls). Birth data for Nate is available in 107 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (107 years for boys and 33 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 Nate has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Nate reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 19.8% percentile (ranked #708) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 82 births per million (ranked 19.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Nate ranks #807 for boys (11.4% percentile) with 60 births per million, which is 72.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nate reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #767) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nate".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Nate. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Nate is pronounced as nayt, which has 1 syllables.
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