Mateo — #7 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mateo

The Social Security Administration has registered 115,568 babies named Mateo between 1904 and 2024, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mateo currently holds the #7 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 11,302 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mateo performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 51,151 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Mateo shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 28,541 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Mateo in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mateo 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 115,568 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.