Tate

68,390 people in America carry this name — ranked #479 of 777.

A surname carried in front of the comma as often as behind it.

Say it TAYT

1 syllable · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

T EY1 T — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 68,390 2020 Census
  • Rank #479 Familiar
  • Per 100,000 22.9 about 1 in 4,846 people
  • As a first name 19,139 ranked #1,645 the other way round

The meaning and origin of Tate

Latin in origin, reading literally as “cheerful”.
A name taken from a father’s name.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

A name and a surname

Tate is carried in front of the comma and behind it — thousands of Americans have it as a surname too.

Names about as common

The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

Who has this name today

  • White alone (non-Hispanic) — 53.4%
  • Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 37.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino origin — 3.1%
  • Two or more races — 5.1%
  • Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 0.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native alone — 0.8%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

Surnames with the same rhythm as Tate

Ends on the same sound

Same rhythm — 1 syllables, stress on the first

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

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Where this page gets its numbers

  • Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
  • Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
  • Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Latin origin