Are Americans more and more familiar with the word mate?

In my younger days,"mate" was used in conversation considerably more rarely than it is now.I was addressed as "mate" once in the U.S. by someone who just learnt that I was an Aussie - but he pronounced it like "meet".

Yes. Coffee Mate

i've never heard an american say mate, like ever. it would be so surreal.

Check, mate!

I rarely heard of that except on here

Ever since crocodile Dundee

This is a knife

It should be used worldwide mate.

Anna, mate!