"Traditional English name"
The name Slate is commonly a male name from the "English" origin.
Slate is the English word for a fine-grained rock that splits into thin flat sheets, and in the United States it is used as a personal name of the word-name type. English dictionaries trace the noun through Middle English to Old French esclate, a splinter or chip, from esclater, to split. It is not an old given name in English and appears in US birth records only from 1990 onward.
The pronunciation of Slate is SLATE.
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