Fate

Where Fate comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Fate.

  • Vowel-ended
Fate through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #571 among boys, with 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1890
    Fate Marable born
    American musician
  3. 1897
    Peak, #438
    19 babies named Fate, its best rank.
  4. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,121.
  5. 1987
    Fate Tola born
    Ethiopian female long-distance runner
  6. 2023
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Fate Marable · American musician, 1890–1947
  • Fate Tola · Ethiopian female long-distance runner, born 1987

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.