Matayah — girls' name
74 babies named Matayah in U.S. Social Security records since 2002, with the highest year being 2003. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
74 girls have been named Matayah since 2002, peaking in the 2000s, last recorded in 2018.
- 74
- total births
- 2002–2018
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 64%
- born in that decade
64% of everyone ever named Matayah was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Matayah in 2003 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Matayah
The Social Security Administration has registered 74 babies named Matayah between 2002 and 2018, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Matayah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Matayah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 47 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Matayah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Matayah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 74 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Matayah at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Matayah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2002
- Peak year (2003)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 17 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
74 total births across 17 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2003 with 9 births in a single year.
Matayah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 47 births that decade — 64% of Matayah's all-time total
Matayah decade highlights
- Peak decade 47 births
- Runner-up 27 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Matayah's strongest decade
47 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 64% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2002–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.