Matheo
Matheo was given to 344 boys in 2025, #751 among boys’ names; 2,451 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,430 Americans named Matheo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Matheo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Matheo?
#751 among boys’ names, 2025
Matheo rose from #1,528 in 2015 to #751 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.20 per 1,000.
344 babies in 2025, the peak
Matheo peaked in 2025, when 344 boys were given it, #751 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 286 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 344 | #751 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 286 | #851 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 271 | #871 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 191 | #1,115 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 141 | #1,323 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,285 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 156 | #1,224 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 148 | #1,249 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 144 | #1,270 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 117 | #1,476 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 108 | #1,528 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,390 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 74 | #1,908 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 55 | #2,344 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,977 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,598 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,123 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,635 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,742 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,978 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,575 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,164 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,056 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,829 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,043 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,987 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Matheo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Matheo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Matheo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Matheo, and how old are they?
2,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,451 Americans ever recorded as Matheo. The median Matheo alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 974 people named Matheo (0 women and girls, 974 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,103 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 266 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,160 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Matheo born?
The states with the most babies named Matheo are Texas, Florida and California, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 52 | #597 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 52 | #377 | 1.9× |
| California | 39 | #704 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #670 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 14 | #698 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 14 | #505 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #635 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 11 | #615 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 11 | #653 | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 11 | #460 | 0.8× |
Where Matheo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Matheo is most over-represented in Florida: since 1996 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Matheo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,661 babies since 1880, Matheo is the most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 344 of their 426 babies (81%), again the most given.
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 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Matheo
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 Matheo and names like it
- Compare Matheo and MathieuBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMatheo peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Matheo since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Matheo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Matheo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.