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Tate vs Tatiyanna

American parents have registered 28,955 Tates since 1880, against 501 Tatiyannas. Tate is still ahead, with 2,022 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tate against Tatiyanna, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tate Tatiyanna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Tate has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Tate had 380 and Tatiyanna had 29.

Side by side

  Tate Tatiyanna
Total US births 28,955501
Most in one year 2,02235
Babies in 2025 2,022under 5
Estimated living today 28,000500
Median age today 1222
Peak year 20251999
Best rank 193rd boys3,509th girls
Rank in 2025 193rdunranked
First recorded 19121993
Girls / boys 1,555 / 27,400501 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tatiyannas alive today are over 22; half the Tates are over 12. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tate and Tatiyanna.