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 | ||
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| 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 | |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#471 · 1 in 1,806
- Oregon#604 · 1 in 3,012
- Tennessee#927 · 1 in 6,128
- Arizona#927 · 1 in 6,545
- Florida#958 · 1 in 6,824
Best ever in a state: #423 in Iowa, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #471 | 6 | 1 in 1,806 |
| Oregon | #604 | 5 | 1 in 3,012 |
| Arizona | #927 | 5 | 1 in 6,545 |
| Tennessee | #927 | 6 | 1 in 6,128 |
| Florida | #958 | 14 | 1 in 6,824 |
| California | #1,011 | 21 | 1 in 8,356 |
| North Carolina | #1,028 | 7 | 1 in 7,353 |
| Texas | #1,169 | 18 | 1 in 9,725 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 146,115 of them was named Slater, which outranked 48.8% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #8,362Zissel12
- #8,362Zoella12
- #8,362Zyomi12
- #8,860Slater11
- #8,860Aadiya11
- #8,860Aadvika11
- #8,860Aara11
- #9,457Aanaya10
- #9,457Aarza10
- #9,457Aashi10
Tied with 596 names at #8,860; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 11,020 of them was named Slater, which outranked 90.9% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,263Lael156
- #1,263Riot156
- #1,263Ripley156
- #1,267Slater155
- #1,267Aksel155
- #1,267Dion155
- #1,267Emil155
- #1,276Andreas154
- #1,276Krish154
- #1,276Octavio154
Tied with 8 names at #1,267; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.