Girls' name · since 1972
Matisha
167 babies named Matisha in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1977. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 167
- total births
- 1972–1999
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 46%
- born in that decade
Matisha sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 167 recorded since 1972.
Matisha has 167 recorded births among girls since 1972, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1972 to 1999.
- 167 total births
- 1972–1999 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 46% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Matisha's 167 recorded births place it above 70% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Matisha's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Matisha's full recorded timeline at 1983, 46% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 54% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1979, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1977 peak of 12 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Matisha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1972–1999
- Peak year (1977)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Matisha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Matisha's strongest decade.
77 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 46% of all-time use.
Matisha births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
64 births
- 1980s
1980s
77 births
- 1990s 26
1990s
26 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 77 births (46% of all-time use).
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- Matisha's usage has stayed within range of its 1980s decade-level peak (77 total births) through the 1990s (26) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 1972–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Matisha: Baby Name Since 1972 - 167 Births, Peak 1977." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/matisha. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Matisha 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 July 2026.