Matteo vs Mattye
American parents have registered 33,499 Matteos since 1880, against 543 Mattyes. Matteo is still ahead, with 2,455 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Matteo 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
Of the 121 years in which either name was published, Matteo for 79 years and Mattye for 42 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.
- 1883–1914 Mattye ahead
- 1922–1924 Matteo ahead
- 1929–1952 Mattye ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1955–2025 Matteo ahead
13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Matteo | Mattye | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 33,499 | 543 |
| Most in one year | 2,589 | 19 |
| Babies in 2025 | 2,455 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 33,000 | 90 |
| Median age today | 7 | 82 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 1925 |
| Best rank | 138th boys | 2,018th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 146th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1911 | 1883 |
| Girls / boys | 16 / 33,483 | 543 / 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 Matteos are over 7. That is 75 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: Matteo and Mattye.