Matt

3,931 people in the United States were counted with the surname Matt in the 2020 census, making it the 8,076th most common in the country. That is about one person in 76,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,931
Rank: 8,076th
How common: 1 in 76,000
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Matt described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 76.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 8.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Black, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%

Notable people called Matt

Mario Matt (born 1979)Austrian alpine skier
Michael Matt (born 1993)Austrian alpine skier
Andreas Matt (born 1982)Austrian freestyle skier
Alfred Matt (born 1948)alpine skier

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

Surnames like Matt

Also a first name

Matt has been given to 23,892 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1959. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.