Mathews
Mathews was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 452 Americans have been recorded with it between 1896 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mathews by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mathews?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,540, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 2006, the peak
Mathews peaked in 2006, when 17 boys were given it, #5,224 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,540 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,748 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,636 | 3.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,340 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,927 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,765 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,940 | 5.2 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,636 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,597 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,224 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 13 | #6,092 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,950 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,447 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,367 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,044 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,777 | 6.1 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,643 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,881 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,612 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,786 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,309 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,330 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,895 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,677 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,534 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,716 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,062 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,936 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,004 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,801 | 4.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,585 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,369 | 3.8 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,559 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,004 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,866 | 3.5 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,021 | 6.3 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,183 | 6.8 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,545 | 10.2 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,778 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,584 | 4.4 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,306 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,169 | 7.9 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,439 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,751 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,190 | 14.1 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,030 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,003 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,242 | 14.0 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,979 | 9.4 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,388 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,195 | 15.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,456 | 14.0 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,913 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,523 | 30.9 |
| 1901 | 7 | #909 | 65.7 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,060 | 50.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mathews a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mathews has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mathews: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mathews, and how old are they?
An estimated 270 Americans named Mathews and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 588 people named Mathews (11 women and girls, 577 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 266 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
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,057 babies since 1880, Mathews is the second most given (22% of them).
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.
More about Mathews and names like it
- Compare Mathews and MatthewsBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMathews peaked in 2006.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mathews since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Mathews.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mathews alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.