Slater
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #1,267 for boys in 2025, 155 births
Given to boys 97.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 155 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,378since 1915
Slater over time
Rank among boys' names. Slater has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #1,267 | 155 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #1,540 | 114 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #1,567 | 111 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #1,425 | 128 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,597 | 107 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #2,001 | 73 |
| 2018 | — | #1,687 | 93 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,883 | 77 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,365 | 55 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,528 | 49 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,920 | 75 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,402 | 52 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,594 | 47 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,203 | 59 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,826 | 42 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,486 | 51 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,632 | 47 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,304 | 56 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,126 | 61 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,365 | 49 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,788 | 37 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,102 | 53 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,694 | 69 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,893 | 58 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,895 | 55 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,879 | 52 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,126 | 43 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,347 | 35 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,817 | 50 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,055 | 40 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,581 | 58 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,907 | 43 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,362 | 31 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,828 | 23 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
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| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,451 | 7 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,588 | 11 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Slater! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Slater is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#635 · 1 in 2,927
- Colorado#839 · 1 in 5,224
- Tennessee#918 · 1 in 6,044
- Arizona#921 · 1 in 6,625
- California#1,141 · 1 in 10,604
Best ever in a state: #423 in Iowa, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #635 | 6 | 1 in 2,927 |
| Colorado | #839 | 5 | 1 in 5,224 |
| Tennessee | #918 | 6 | 1 in 6,044 |
| Arizona | #921 | 5 | 1 in 6,625 |
| California | #1,141 | 17 | 1 in 10,604 |
| Texas | #1,511 | 12 | 1 in 14,900 |
| Florida | #1,627 | 6 | 1 in 15,940 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Slater
- 273 spots since 2024 (#1,540 → #1,267)
- 548 spots since 2020 (#1,815 → #1,267)
- 1,261 spots since 2015 (#2,528 → #1,267)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2025 at #1,267 (155 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,020 boys born in 2025 were named Slater (0.01%)
- 29.3% of all boys named Slater (697) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 24 | #3,115 (1919) | #3,662 |
| 1920s | 28 | #2,588 (1925) | #3,598 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,147 (1936) | #3,333 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 16 | #3,329 (1950) | #3,755 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 30 | #3,836 (1977) | #4,762 |
| 1980s | 30 | #5,525 (1980) | #6,196 |
| 1990s | 384 | #1,581 (1994) | #2,428 |
| 2000s | 536 | #1,694 (2002) | #2,229 |
| 2010s | 622 | #1,687 (2018) | #2,241 |
| 2020s | 697 | #1,267 (2025) | #1,535 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Slater in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 270,032 of them was named Slater, which outranked 24.0% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,161Zymira7
- #12,161Zyn7
- #12,161Zyomi7
- #13,477Slater6
- #13,477Aada6
- #13,477Aadiya6
- #13,477Aalaysia6
- #15,293Aabha5
- #15,293Aaina5
- #15,293Aaisha5
Tied with 1,815 names at #13,477; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 15,113 of them was named Slater, which outranked 89.2% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,530Nakoa115
- #1,530Shivansh115
- #1,530Wolfgang115
- #1,540Slater114
- #1,540Jonathon114
- #1,540Kamazi114
- #1,540Khaled114
- #1,551Chozyn113
- #1,551Clarence113
- #1,551Kyng113
Tied with 10 names at #1,540; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.