Slate

Slate is the 6,093rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,410 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 55,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,410
Rank: 6,093rd
How common: 1 in 55,200
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Metonymic occupational surname for a slater.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.7%
Black, not Hispanic 5.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Slate

Jenny Slate (born 1982)American actress and comedian
Jeremy Slate (1926–2006)American actor

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

Surnames like Slate

Also a first name

Slate has been given to 863 American babies as a first name since 1990, peaking in 2018. 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.