Girls' name · since 1973
Matia
Matia has 419 recorded births since 1973 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2000 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #13,156 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,332 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 419
- born since 1973
- 1990s
- peak decade
419 babies have been named Matia since 1973, making it today's #15332 girls' name.
Matia has 419 recorded births among girls since 1973, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15332 as of the latest data, more common than 11% of girls, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1973 to 2025.
- #13,156 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,332 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 419 born since 1973
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Matia ranks #13,156 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,332 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 419 born since 1973, peaking in the 1990s.
- #13,156 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,332 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 419
- born since 1973
- 1990s
- peak decade
Matia's 419 recorded births place it above 81.8% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Matia compares
419 Top 48% higher than 52% of 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Matia's all-time total is 11% above the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Matia | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 419 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 20 | 21 | 19,840 |
Matia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Matia's full recorded timeline at 1996, 54% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 46% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1973, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2000 peak of 20 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Matia popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–2025
- Peak year (2000)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 53 years of records
Matia popularity over time - boys
15 total births recorded since 2010 (Matia as boys' name)
Matia by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (126 births, 30% of the file).
1990s was Matia's strongest decade.
126 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 30% of all-time use.
Matia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 29
1970s
29 births
- 1980s
1980s
93 births
- 1990s
1990s
126 births
- 2000s
2000s
118 births
- 2010s 42
2010s
42 births
- 2020s 11
2020s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 126 births (30% of all-time use).
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- Matia's decade-level peak was the 1990s (126 total births); usage has since declined to 11 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Matia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2000)
Similar record span (~52 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1973–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Matia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.