Mataya
Mataya was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,750 among girls’ names; 1,178 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Mataya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mataya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mataya?
#7,750 among girls’ names, 2025
Mataya fell from #4,935 in 2015 to #7,750 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 8.7 per million.
76 babies in 2003, the peak
Mataya peaked in 2003, when 76 girls were given it, #2,252 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,750 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,342 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,509 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,901 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,148 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,262 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,332 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,625 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,713 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,331 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,935 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,526 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,716 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,031 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,208 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,037 | 31.5 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,278 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,824 | 33.8 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,103 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,659 | 35.8 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,656 | 34.6 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,980 | 28.9 |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,252 | 41.6 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,963 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,902 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,046 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,027 | 24.8 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,398 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,462 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,207 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,354 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,602 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,146 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,830 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,060 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,800 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,479 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,090 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,626 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mataya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mataya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mataya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mataya, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,178 Americans ever recorded as Mataya. The median Mataya alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 990 people named Mataya (981 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,080 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 137 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 785 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 239 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,079 babies since 1880, Mataya is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 91 babies (15%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mataya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mataya and names like it
- Compare Mataya and MatteaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMataya peaked in 2003.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mataya since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Mataya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mataya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.