Math
Math was last recorded in 1934, when 6 babies were given it; 100 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Math by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Math?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,545, in 1934; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1915, the peak
Math peaked in 1915, when 9 boys were given it, #2,750 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 6 | #3,545 | 5.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,520 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,672 | 6.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,620 | 6.3 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,089 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,722 | 4.6 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,018 | 6.1 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,358 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,750 | 10.6 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,130 | 9.2 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1898 | 5 | #1,242 | 40.8 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,208 | 41.8 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,184 | 43.2 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,101 | 45.0 |
| 1885 | 6 | #895 | 55.7 |
| 1881 | 5 | #965 | 49.6 |
| 1880 | 7 | #786 | 63.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Math a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Math has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Math: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Math, and how old are they?
Almost everyone recorded as Math was born before 1900, so the estimate of Americans with the name alive today rounds to none. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 122 people named Math (19 women and girls, 103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Math rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Math
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 Math and names like it
- Compare Math and LemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMath peaked in 1915.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Math.
- Names starting with MMost given first.