Matisse
About 582 American babies have been named Matisse since 1988, most of them around 2021. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,608th. About 580 Matisses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Matisse boys named Matisse
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 582
- Estimated living today
- 580
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 3,814th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,608th
- First recorded
- 1988
- Girls / boys
- 220 / 362
How old the living Matisses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 582 babies given the name since 1988, about 580 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Matisses
- Matisse Thybulle (born 1997)Australian-American basketball player
People named Matisse with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Matisse is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Matisse is most concentrated in California (9.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Matisse peaked:
Matisse elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Matisse | 2,970 | 288th |
| Belgium boys | Matisse | 1,181 | 155th |
| France girls | Matisse | 115 | 2,596th |
| Switzerland boys | Matisse | 93 | 865th |
| England and Wales boys | Matisse | 80 | 2,952nd |
| England and Wales girls | Matisse | 6 | 5,591st |
| Poland boys | Matisse | 2 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Matisse: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Matisse | 24 | 0.002% | 1,015th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Matisse | 62 | 0.014% | 263rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Matisse | 7 | 0.011% | 112th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Matisse: rank by region
In 2025, Matisse was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Matisse | 376 | 15 |
In 2013, Matisse was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Matisse | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Matisse appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (132nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Matisse against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.