Matison — girls' name
351 babies named Matison in U.S. Social Security records since 1992, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
351 girls have been named Matison since 1992, peaking in the 2000s, last recorded in 2017.
- 351
- total births
- 1992–2017
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 53%
- born in that decade
53% of everyone ever named Matison was born in this single decade.
31 babies were named Matison in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Matison
The Social Security Administration has registered 351 babies named Matison between 1992 and 2017, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Matison currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 31 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Matison performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 186 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Matison shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Matison in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Matison 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 351 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.
Matison at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Matison popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1992
- Peak year (2001)
- 31
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
351 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 31 births in a single year.
Matison by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 186 births that decade — 53% of Matison's all-time total
Matison decade highlights
- Peak decade 186 births
- Runner-up 108 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Matison's strongest decade
186 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 53% of all-time use.
Matison by state
Where Matison concentrates geographically — total births since 1992
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 1.4% |
5 of 351 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas 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, 1992–2017 (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.