Matina — girls' name
361 babies named Matina in U.S. Social Security records since 1929, with the highest year being 1974. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Matina was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Matina in 1974 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Matina
The Social Security Administration has registered 361 babies named Matina between 1929 and 2022, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Matina currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Matina performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 110 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Matina shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Matina in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Matina in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 361 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Matina at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Matina popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1929
- Peak year (1974)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 94 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
361 total births across 94 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1974 with 17 births in a single year.
Matina by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 110 births that decade — 30% of Matina's all-time total
Matina decade highlights
- Peak decade 110 births
- Runner-up 68 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Matina's strongest decade
110 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Matina by state
Where Matina concentrates geographically — total births since 1929
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Ohio | | 5 | 1.4% |
5 of 361 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Ohio 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Ohio accounts for 1.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1929–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.