Pate

#8,070 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Patrick

Pate has been given to 282 babies in the U.S. since 1901. In 2025 it ranked #8,070 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Pate, 2025

1 in 332,000

Pate over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pate: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Patrick

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pate means

Pate is a diminutive of Patrick.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pate → Patrick. The family’s meaning is “patrician”, recorded in English with the source elements Patricius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Patrick.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 282 boys were recorded with the name Pate between 1901 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2003; its best national rank was #923 in 1901.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,915 in 2020 to #8,070 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,343 in 2015 to #8,070 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Pate?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 171,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #8,070; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Pate sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pate. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pates were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pate was born before 2003 — so the typical Pate is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 51.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 204; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Pate rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +5,661; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −155; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,273; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.25×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 76.9%; Peak was 2003 (13)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #923; 1901

Spellings of Pate

Pate is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 41.1% against Pate's <0.01%.

Paul41.1%1,398,293
Peter17.3%589,588
Dale8.2%278,156
Jake3.8%129,322
Mateo3.7%126,693
Jace2.7%91,544
Wade2.2%76,498
Dave1.9%64,378

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pate is used

Across 1910–2025, Pate was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,210,576 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pate has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pate by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #8,070
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 155
Best rank ever: #923; 1901
Peak year: 2003; 13 that year
First recorded: 1901
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 282
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Pate

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Patty Slate Paton Patrice Patton Patrik Kate Patti Mate Fate Nate Patryk Patterson Patick Patt Pater Patrich Patryck Patch Paten Patric Clate Patsy Pattrick

Sibling names for Pate

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Sydnee Lesli Shakira Madisen Destiney Jaden Abagail Abigale

For a brother

Keven Zakary Aaden Garret Samual Donavon Shamar Jarod

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