Mathan
Mathan was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 159 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mathan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mathan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,462, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1984, the peak
Mathan peaked in 1984, when 10 boys were given it, #4,109 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #13,462 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,635 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,563 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,461 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,340 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,512 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,764 | 3.2 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,040 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,556 | 2.9 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,078 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #9,048 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,244 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,683 | 3.7 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,089 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,201 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,047 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,958 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,202 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,109 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,934 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,857 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,916 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,899 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,684 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,995 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mathan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mathan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mathan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mathan, and how old are they?
An estimated 153 Americans named Mathan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 15 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 322 people named Mathan (9 women and girls, 313 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 145 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times 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
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 Mathan
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.