Matteo vs Matthias
American parents have registered 33,499 Matteos since 1880, against 13,676 Matthiases. Matteo is still ahead, with 2,455 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Matteo Matthias
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
Of the 121 years in which either name was published, Matthias for 77 years and Matteo for 44 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1880–1919 Matthias ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1920–1930 Matteo ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1940–1996 Matthias ahead
- 1997–2025 Matteo ahead
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Matteo | Matthias | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 33,499 | 13,676 |
| Most in one year | 2,589 | 854 |
| Babies in 2025 | 2,455 | 854 |
| Estimated living today | 33,000 | 13,000 |
| Median age today | 7 | 9 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 138th boys | 372nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 146th | 372nd |
| First recorded | 1911 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 16 / 33,483 | 0 / 13,676 |
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 Matthiases alive today are over 9; half the Matteos are over 7. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Matteo Nevada (4.0×), Arizona (2.6×), Florida (2.3×)
- Matthias Alaska (3.4×), New Mexico (3.1×), Arizona (2.4×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Matteo | Matthias |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 163,771 | 2,966 |
| France | 44,230 Mattéo | 15,780 |
| Austria | 5,541 | 19,532 |
| Belgium | 8,735 | 3,889 |
| Switzerland | 7,622 | 1,308 |
| England and Wales | 3,824 | 1,214 |
| Norway | 479 | 277 |
| Poland | 550 | 85 |
| Ireland | 359 | 70 |
| Scotland | 204 | 15 |
| Northern Ireland | 41 | 4 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Matteo and Matthias.