Mateya
Mateya was last recorded in 2014, when 6 babies were given it; 97 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mateya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mateya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,875, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2006, the peak
Mateya peaked in 2006, when 11 girls were given it, #10,371 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,875 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,101 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,266 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,763 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,481 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,371 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,651 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,087 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,795 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,953 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | #11,413 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,797 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,514 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,866 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mateya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mateya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mateya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mateya, and how old are they?
An estimated 96 Americans named Mateya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 129 people named Mateya (127 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 96 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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
Mateya is a less common spelling of Mataya: SSA has recorded 97 Mateya and 1,178 Mataya since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mateya
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.