Mats
Mats was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 83 Americans have been recorded with it between 1986 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mats by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mats mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Mats is “a male given name”
Vernacular form of Mattias and Matteus. First recorded in Sweden in 1494 as Matz.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mats?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,438, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 2003, the peak
Mats peaked in 2003, when 9 boys were given it, #7,619 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #13,438 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,610 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,637 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,513 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,622 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,849 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,558 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,992 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,619 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,537 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 | #9,478 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,700 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,753 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,437 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mats a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mats has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mats: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mats, and how old are they?
An estimated 81 Americans named Mats and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 433 people named Mats (7 women and girls, 426 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 82 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mats
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.