Fun Facts About the Name Slayter
- 191 babies named Slayter: U.S. records list 191 babies given the name Slayter from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Slayter Mean?
Slayter is a spelling variant of the English surname Slater, an occupational name for a person who works with slate - typically a roofer who covers buildings with slate tiles, but also a cutter or dresser of slate. It comes from Middle English slat or sclat ("slate"), a word borrowed from Old French esclate ("sliver, chip, slate"), which is itself of Germanic origin, combined with the agent suffix -er. The sense is occupational: it identified a person by trade rather than by appearance, place, or ancestry.
Slayter Name History & Origins
Occupational surnames of this type became hereditary in England during the later Middle Ages, when a family's trade name passed from father to children and stopped describing a current job. Slater is recorded in medieval England in this way, and the spelling Slayter belongs to the same family of variants, along with forms such as Sclater and Sleator. These spellings grew out of the habit of writing names by sound, and they cluster in different regions rather than reflecting separate origins. The same trade produced the name in northern England and Scotland, where slate roofing was common.
As a first name, Slayter is uncommon and functions as a transferred use of the surname, in the long English tradition of turning family names into given names. It has no independent etymology of its own; its meaning and origin are those of the surname. The spelling without the y, Slater, is the more frequent form of the surname.
How Popular is the Name Slayter?
Slayter has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #5,019 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,019 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2024 | #6,397 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2023 | #6,170 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2022 | #6,106 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2021 | #5,742 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #13,754 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #11,934 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2018 | #6,647 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2017 | #6,616 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2016 | #7,081 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #9,446 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #13,776 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #10,569 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2012 | #10,593 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2011 | #9,474 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2009 | #10,808 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2007 | #14,091 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 2004 | #12,954 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #11,885 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1999 | #11,372 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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