Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Gates” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gates” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Gates” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Gates” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Gates” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Gates” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Gates” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gates” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 -100%
1993 11 0.000002918 5 6 -9%
1994 17 0.000004573 10 7 18%
1995 11 0.000003004 6 5 9%
1996 21 0.000005758 10 11 -5%
1997 15 0.000004137 8 7 7%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
2000 14 0.000003704 5 9 -29%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 -100%
2007 10 0.000002501 10 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 -100%
2012 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 -100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 -100%
2015 12 0.000003242 12 -100%
2016 17 0.000004634 17 -100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 -100%
2018 17 0.000004835 17 -100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 -100%
2020 18 0.000005388 18 -100%
2021 17 0.000005018 17 -100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 -100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 -100%
2024 37 0.000011116 37 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Gates:

  1. Gaspard
  2. Gaspare
  3. Gasper
  4. Gaston
  5. Gaten
  6. Gates (this page)
  7. Gatha
  8. Gathel
  9. Gather
  10. Gatlen
  11. Gatlin