Fate

Where Fate comes from

Fate hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #571 among boys — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1890
    Fate Marable born
    American musician
  3. 1897
    Peak, #438
    19 babies named Fate — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,121.
  5. 1987
    Fate Tola born
    Ethiopian female long-distance runner
  6. 2023
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Fate Marable · American musician, 1890–1947
  • Fate Tola · Ethiopian female long-distance runner, born 1987

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.