Will my child share the name Tate with classmates?

Unlikely. With around 152 UK babies named Tate per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Tate in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.

Is Tate becoming more or less popular in the UK?

Tate is at its highest recorded position — #299 in 2025, with 152 births. In 2020 it ranked #352.

Is Tate popular in the US as well as the UK?

Tate is more popular in the US (#210) than in the UK (#4193). Names with strong rankings in both countries tend to have broad cross-cultural appeal, working well for international families or those with ties to both nations.

Is Tate a popular baby name in the United States?

Tate appears in the US top 500 at #210 in 2024 — moderately popular in America, though less so than in the UK.

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Tate is a distinctive choice, ranked #299 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Tate in their class.

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UK Rank 2025

#299

US Rank #194

About the Name Tate

Tate has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 3841 places in five years. It was most popular in 2020 at #352 — parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.

Tate is fairly common in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Tate in their class.

In the US it ranks even higher at #210, where it enjoys a particularly strong following.

⭐ Famous People Named Tate

Andrew Tate — Emory Andrew Tate III is an American and British social media personality, businessman, and former professional kickboxer who gained notoriety for promoting various highly controversial positions in the manosphere.
Doris Tate — Doris Gwendolyn Tate was an American activist for the rights of crime victims, and the mother of actress Sharon Tate.
John Tate — John Tate may refer to: John Tate (mathematician), American mathematician John Torrence Tate Sr.

Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about the name Tate

152

UK babies named Tate (2025)

< 1

Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)

< 1

In a school of 600

↑ 53 places

Rank change (last 5 years)

🏫 Who else is in the room?

In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Tate

Almost certainly the only Tate in the class

UK Popularity (1996–2025)

Rank and birth count · ONS official data

US Popularity (2020–2025)

Rank · SSA official data

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Famous People Named Tate

Notable people who share this name, from history to the present day. See full list on Wikipedia

Andrew Tateb. 1986

Emory Andrew Tate III is an American and British social media personality, businessman, and former professional kickboxer who gained notoriety for promoting various highly controversial positions in the manosphere.

Doris Tateb. 1969

Doris Gwendolyn Tate was an American activist for the rights of crime victims, and the mother of actress Sharon Tate.

John Tate1925

John Tate may refer to: John Tate (mathematician), American mathematician John Torrence Tate Sr.

Tate duality

In mathematics, Tate duality or Poitou–Tate duality is a duality theorem for Galois cohomology groups of modules over the Galois group of an algebraic number field or local field, introduced by John Tate and Georges Poitou.