Slate
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 40 babies a year in the US.
Slate by the numbers
Slate was given to 40 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 43 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Slate
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 Slate. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Sladevalley or dell199 in the US (2017)
- Slaterone who lays slate tiles76 in the US (2017)
- Shanegod is gracious; anglicized form of Seán927 in the US (2017)
- Shadeshadow; shade; darkness20 in the US (2017)
- Slaydevalley; modern respelling of Slade16 in the US (2017)
- Solacecomfort, consolation; from solacium3 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Slate
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