Matisse — #4255 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Matisse

The Social Security Administration has registered 346 babies named Matisse between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Matisse currently holds the #4255 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Matisse is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 215 additional births since 1988.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Matisse performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 120 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Matisse shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 53 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Matisse in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Matisse 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 346 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.