Cate

At the 2020 census, 4,645 Americans bore the surname Cate — 6,970th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 64,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,645
Rank: 6,970th
How common: 1 in 64,300
Per 100,000: 1.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cate described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Cate

Henk ten Cate (born 1954)Dutch association football player and manager

People named Cate with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cate

Also a first name

Cate has been given to 1,789 American babies as a first name since 1980, peaking in 2008. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.