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Matty

About 930 American babies have been named Matty since 1904, most of them around 2020. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 740 Mattys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Matty boys named Matty

By the numbers

Total US births
930
Estimated living today
740
Median age today
16
Peak year
2020
Best rank
4,648th
Rank in 2025
5,722nd
First recorded
1904
Girls / boys
759 / 171

How old the living Mattys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 930 babies given the name since 1904, about 740 are alive — 80 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 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 Mattys

People named Matty with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Matty is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Matty is most concentrated in New York (12.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2020

The most popular girls’ names the year Matty peaked:

All the names of 2020

Matty elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Matty 245 1,740th
England and Wales boys Matty 181 1,688th
Belgium boys Matty 29 939th
England and Wales girls Matty 17 4,736th
France girls Matty 10 7,003rd
Scotland boys Matty 6 478th
Ireland boys Matty 4 631st
Northern Ireland boys Matty 4 344th

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.

Matty: rank by region

In 2013, Matty was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Matty 847 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – 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

Matty 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.