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Tate

Tate: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“cheerful”
Origin
Old English
Say it
TAYT · 1 syllable
Used for
Boys (95% of all uses)

Tate comes from an English surname derived from an Old English byname thought to mean cheerful or pleasant. It is also used as a given name in modern English usage.

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How popular is Tate?

2024535 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Tate in 20241,780

2024 rank#210 boys

Peak year2023

Total US babies since 188026,925

Tate is rising: use over the last five years is 2.0× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Tate

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Wesleywestern meadow · Old English
  • Westonwestern settlement · Old English
  • Blakeblack; pale · Old English
  • Edwardwealthy guardian · Old English
  • Ashtonash tree town · Old English
  • Kingstonking's town · Old English
  • Brandonbroom-covered hill · Old English
  • Bentleybent-grass clearing · Old English

Tate questions

What does the name Tate mean?

Tate means "cheerful". It comes from Old English. Tate comes from an English surname derived from an Old English byname thought to mean cheerful or pleasant. It is also used as a given name in modern English usage.

Is Tate a boy or girl name?

Tate is mainly a boy's name in US records (95% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Tate?

1,780 US babies were named Tate in 2024. Its peak year was 2023.

How do you pronounce Tate?

Tate is usually pronounced TAYT.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.