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Mathew vs Mattye

American parents have registered 77,745 Mathews since 1880, against 543 Mattyes. Mathew is still ahead, with 235 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mathew against Mattye, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mathew Mattye

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Mathew has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1904, when Mathew had 29 and Mattye had 8.

Side by side

  Mathew Mattye
Total US births 77,745543
Most in one year 2,18419
Babies in 2025 235under 5
Estimated living today 68,00090
Median age today 3582
Peak year 19901925
Best rank 148th boys2,018th girls
Rank in 2025 973rdunranked
First recorded 18801883
Girls / boys 207 / 77,538543 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mattyes alive today are over 82; half the Mathews are over 35. That is 47 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mathew and Mattye.