Nate

Where Nate comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Nate.

  • Vowel-ended
Nate through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #909 among boys with 5 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1948
    Nate Archibald born
    American basketball player
  4. 1981
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  5. 1984
    Nate Robinson born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Nate Robinson · American basketball player, born 1984
  • Nate Archibald · American basketball player, born 1948
  • Nate Ruess · American singer, born 1982
  • Nate Thurmond · American basketball player, 1941–2016
  • Nate Parker · American actor and filmmaker, born 1979

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.