Slater
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #1,267 for boys in 2025, 155 births
Given to boys 97.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 155 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,378since 1915
Slater over time
Rank among boys' names. Slater has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #1,267 | 155 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #1,540 | 114 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #1,567 | 111 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #1,425 | 128 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,597 | 107 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #2,001 | 73 |
| 2018 | — | #1,687 | 93 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,883 | 77 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,365 | 55 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,528 | 49 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,920 | 75 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,402 | 52 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,594 | 47 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,203 | 59 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,826 | 42 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,486 | 51 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,632 | 47 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,304 | 56 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,126 | 61 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,365 | 49 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,788 | 37 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,102 | 53 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,694 | 69 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,893 | 58 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,895 | 55 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,879 | 52 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,126 | 43 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,347 | 35 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,817 | 50 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,055 | 40 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,581 | 58 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,907 | 43 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,362 | 31 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,828 | 23 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
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| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,451 | 7 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,588 | 11 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Slater! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Slater is popular in 1915
No state had 5 or more boys named Slater in 1915, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Slater
- 273 spots since 2024 (#1,540 → #1,267)
- 548 spots since 2020 (#1,815 → #1,267)
- 1,261 spots since 2015 (#2,528 → #1,267)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2025 at #1,267 (155 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,020 boys born in 2025 were named Slater (0.01%)
- 29.3% of all boys named Slater (697) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 24 | #3,115 (1919) | #3,662 |
| 1920s | 28 | #2,588 (1925) | #3,598 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,147 (1936) | #3,333 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 16 | #3,329 (1950) | #3,755 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 30 | #3,836 (1977) | #4,762 |
| 1980s | 30 | #5,525 (1980) | #6,196 |
| 1990s | 384 | #1,581 (1994) | #2,428 |
| 2000s | 536 | #1,694 (2002) | #2,229 |
| 2010s | 622 | #1,687 (2018) | #2,241 |
| 2020s | 697 | #1,267 (2025) | #1,535 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Slater in 1915
Top boys' names in 1915
More about 1915
boys
848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 169,715 of them was named Slater, which outranked 12.9% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 565 names at #3,825; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.