Mates
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Mates by the numbers
Mates was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Mates
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Mates. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Mateogift of God7,735 in the US (2017)
- Mateigift of god; Romanian form of Matthew109 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mateusgift of god; portuguese form of matthew17 in England and Wales (2025)
- Matasgift of God; a form of Matthew18 in England and Wales (2025)
- Matisgift of god; a form of Matthew10 in the US (2017)
- Mayesson of may; patronymic form9 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Mates
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