Matsue — girls' name
157 babies named Matsue in U.S. Social Security records since 1914, with the highest year being 1918. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
57% of everyone ever named Matsue was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Matsue in 1918 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Matsue
The Social Security Administration has registered 157 babies named Matsue between 1914 and 1930, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Matsue currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1930. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Matsue performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 89 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Matsue shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 137 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Matsue in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Matsue 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 157 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.
Matsue at a glance
Last recorded 1930Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Matsue popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1930–1914
- Peak year (1918)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 17 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1930.
157 total births across 17 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1918 with 20 births in a single year.
Matsue by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 89 births that decade — 57% of Matsue's all-time total
Matsue decade highlights
- Peak decade 89 births
- Runner-up 57 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Matsue's strongest decade
89 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 57% of all-time use.
Matsue by state
Where Matsue concentrates geographically — total births since 1914
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Hawaii | | 137 | 87.3% |
137 of 157 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Hawaii 87.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Hawaii accounts for 87.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 1914–1930 (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.