Nate

Where Nate comes from

Nate hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #909 among boys with 5 babies — 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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1984
    Nate Robinson born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.