Nate

What Nate means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Nate yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #396 vs #1,743 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Nate?

US: Steady: #1668 in 2015, #1743 now. England & Wales: Steady: #379 in 2015, #396 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2007, when 181 boys got the name (#1038 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 18,366 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,640 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,455 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NJ (0.15 per 1,000 boys), WA (0.15 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.14 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Nate is #1743 in the US and #396 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Nate were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Naod22 US · 4 E&W
• Knute10 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Nate

Boys

• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Caden#201Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #201 vs #745 in 2025
• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US
• Cooper#27Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #77 in 2015, #27 in 2025

For a sister

• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Ella#29Short form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Alana#140Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Valeria#162“to be healthy, to be strong”^*
• Natalia#144“birthday (of the Lord)”^*
• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Nate’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.