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Slater

#1,275 in 2025Boys' name

From English Slater; literal meaning unconfirmed

Slater has been given to 2,445 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #1,275 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 155 recorded.

Babies named Slater, 2025

1 in 21,400

Slater over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Slater: meaning, origin, and history

From English Slater; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Slater means

Slater is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Slater is used in Cebuano.

Slater comes through English Slater.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,378 boys were recorded with the name Slater between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 155 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,275 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,827 in 2020 to #1,275 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,558 in 2015 to #1,275 in 2025.

In the United States, 67 girls were recorded with the name Slater between 2019 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,997 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,867 in 2020 to #9,378 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Slater?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,400
155 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,275
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,826 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Slater 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,826 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Slater. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Slaters were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Slater was born before 2012 — so the typical Slater is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,315
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (697).

Is Slater 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
+273
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+552
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,283
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.16×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (155)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,275
2025

Spellings of Slater

Slater is not the most common spelling — Slade is, with 50.0% against Slater's 19.5%.

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 Slater is used

Across 2016–2025, Slater was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 18,710 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 9,091
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 10,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 11,111
  4. 4Florida1 in 16,667
  5. 5Iowa1 in 16,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 25,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in 33,333
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 33,333

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.

Slater around the world

Where Slater ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2018
    #3,959
    in 2018
  • France
    1998–1998
    #3,339
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Slater

People whose public names include Slater, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Slater by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,275
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 552
Best rank ever
#1,275
2025
Peak year
2025
155 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,378
Count in 2025
155

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,378
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,489
Best rank ever
#7,997
2023
Peak year
2023
14 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
67
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Slater

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

SlayterKolterCutterSladeSlateBaxterSlaydeWinterPieterSlaytonAlisterMisterBusterVesterKutterWebsterSladenSutterColterJeterMasterSlaydenFosterCoulter

Names with a curve like Slater

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Slater, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NatanaelRenzoAymanSaifOzielJiovanniMalekScoutIssaEitanNoaTamir

Sibling names for Slater

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

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