# Mate (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mate/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 75 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 75 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 97, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | 6,435 |
| 2002 | 5 | 11,835 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,589 |
| 2005 | 6 | 10,997 |
| 2007 | 7 | 10,498 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,769 |
| 2013 | 6 | 11,669 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,395 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,398 |
| 2018 | 5 | 13,440 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,651 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10,214 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | 3,227 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 7 | 2,660 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 9 | 2,319 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,324 |
| 2018 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |

## People named Mate

- Mate Pavić, Croatian tennis player
- Mate Boban, Bosnian Croat politician (1940-1997)
- Mate Parlov, Croatian boxer and Olympic gold medalist (1948–2008)
- Mate Bilić, Croatian footballer
- Mate Vatsadze, Georgian footballer
- Mate Rimac, Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
- Mate Granić, Croatian politician
- Mate Maleš, Croatian soccer player
- Mate Ghvinianidze, Georgian footballer
- Mate Dragičević, Croatian footballer
- Mate Uzinić, Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop
- Máté Kiss, association football player (b. 1991)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.