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Matilyn vs Matteo

American parents have registered 33,499 Matteos since 1880, against 947 Matilyns. Matteo is still ahead, with 2,455 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Matilyn against Matteo, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Matilyn Matteo

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

Matteo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1911 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Matilyn had 24 and Matteo had 106.

Side by side

  Matilyn Matteo
Total US births 94733,499
Most in one year 632,589
Babies in 2025 112,455
Estimated living today 94033,000
Median age today 167
Peak year 20082024
Best rank 2,831st girls138th boys
Rank in 2025 8,860th146th
First recorded 19941911
Girls / boys 947 / 016 / 33,483

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 Matilyns alive today are over 16; half the Matteos are over 7. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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