Slate
Slate is a baby name of English origin, meaning The blue-grey rock.
What Slate means
The blue-grey rock.
Slate sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Slate comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Slate is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Slate?
Slate sits outside the top 100 baby names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Slate
We group Slate under Earth and Color — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Slate
These share Slate's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Dakota — Friend; ally.
- Garnet — The deep-red gem.
- Jet — Deep, glossy black gem.
- Scarlett — Brilliant red.
- Stanley — Dweller by the stony meadow.
- Stone — Strong and steadfast as stone.
- Beckham — Homestead by the stream.
- Blue — The colour of the sky and sea.
- Bluebell — The woodland bell flower.
- Bradley — Broad meadow.
- Camden — Winding valley.
- Canyon — A deep gorge in the earth.
More English names
- Sky — The heavens above.
- Sonnet — A little song; a poem.
- Sir — A title of honour and respect.
- Sparrow — The small, lively bird.
- Seven — The sacred number seven.
- Stanley — Dweller by the stony meadow.
- Scarlett — Brilliant red.
- Sterling — Of the highest quality; pure silver.
- Saylor — Boat captain; of the sea.
- Stone — Strong and steadfast as stone.